Chapter 35: The Cold War of Parents
Xia Shouye didn't stay long, and left after saying this.
Huang Liuniang opened the door and entered the house, and sighed to Qingbao: "Alas, the time to be angry has come again." Farming with your aunt and uncle is not a time for people to worry. ”
Qingbao asked in the back, "Isn't it a separation?" Why do you always plant together? ”
"It's said it's a point, but it's not a point. In the early years, taxes were collected on a household-by-household basis, and in order to pay less taxes, although the families were separated, the households were still not separated. Your grandmother took this one, and she had to say that the division was not neat, and she had to farm in one piece. In fact, it is biased towards your uncle's family. Look at it, the first one must have planted his family, and the good manure and fertilizer all made his family go to the field. Huang Liuniang just said it, and she was angry, it was obvious that she had suffered a lot of losses because of farming for so many years.
Xia Shouping and Erzhu came back after dark, and their income was good today, the sugar was sold out, and they got seventy-six Wen. Seeing the large pile of copper coins, Huang Liuniang became happy.
Xia Shouping hurriedly ate and went to his eldest brother's house in the dark.
Huang Liuniang took five children to peel peanuts and melon seeds, fried them and let them cool, and Xia Shouping came back.
Huang Liuniang snorted coldly and asked, "Which day will you plant it?" Which one will be planted first? ”
"I'll plant it in two days, and it'll be the same as before." Xia Shouping knew that he was at a loss, and he didn't dare to look at Huang Liuniang when he was dodging.
This time, Huang Liuniang gritted her teeth and said angrily: "When Liuya looks for her mother-in-law, I must take care of it, I would rather find a person with a bad temper to be beaten every day, and resolutely not find a nest for her to be bullied for a lifetime!" ”
This is a bit too ugly to hear, Xia Shouping didn't know whether he was angry, or he didn't dare to look directly at Huang Liuniang's anger, he didn't dare to say a word, just silently picked up the rolling pin and began to roll peanuts.
Huang Liuniang was secretly angry, Xia Shouping knew that he was in a bad position and didn't dare to speak, although the husband and wife still worked together to make sugar, but the whole process was very depressed, and there was no sound at all. Seeing that their father and mother were angry, several children didn't even dare to speak out loud. All night, the atmosphere in Qingbao's house was very dull.
In the usual gossip of Huang Liuniang and Xia Shouping, Qingbao has roughly understood that this society also applies fertilizer, but it is human and animal manure. Xia Shouping's family has no livestock, so in normal times, he goes to the road to pick up the dung pulled by passing animals. Since every family picks up manure these days, there is not much manure that can be picked up.
Crops and flowers, all rely on manure, this manure is not much, it has a direct impact on the quality of the crops, so Huang Liuniang is very angry about the sister-in-law's family occupying more manure every year.
But anger is anger, and when it's time to plant crops, you have to plant crops.
During the day, Xia Shouping went to sell sugar, and Huang Liuniang prepared everything for farming at home.
On the day of planting, because Xia Shouping and Huang Liuniang wanted to work in the field, they still asked Erzhu and Qingbao to sell sugar.
In the past few days, Erzhu and Xia Shouping have been selling sugar, this road has been cooked, and the three brothers and sisters are familiar with the streets and alleys, and the sugar is selling quickly.
At noon, the three of them bought a meatloaf and ate it. Qingbao took the two of them to the back door of Yue Yue's house, shouted a few times, and sure enough, it didn't take long for the evening smoke to come out.
As soon as she saw Qingbao, Wanyan immediately smiled happily: "Liuya, why haven't you been here for a few days?" ”
Qingbao replied obediently: "In the past few days, my father and my second brother have come to sell sugar, and I haven't come." Sister Wanyan, do you still want sugar today? What about the more and more? ”
"The more I was not at home, I went to my relatives. I've already eaten all the candy last time, so you can wrap me a few more pieces. ”
Qingbao, under the command of Wanyan, wrapped a large bag of sugar and handed it to her.
The evening smoke is the same as before: "I came out in a hurry, I didn't bring any money, Liuya, you come and get it from me." ”
Qingbao resigned himself to walking behind her and followed her into the house.
There was no one in the back garden as usual, and there was no one in the room for evening smoke.
put down the sugar, handed the letter that had been written a long time ago to Qingbao, and said in a low voice: "Liuya, didn't let others see the letter last time, right?" ”
Qingbao knows that in this era, fornicating with others is a felony, and it is estimated that there is no good fruit in passing on the news by herself, how dare she say it? can they pass on love letters, but it is just because Wanyan and Dr. Lin helped them once, and they pity this couple who can't stay together in love.
Seeing that Qingbao shook his head, Wanyan relieved himself and sighed lightly: "Liuya, you have to be careful not to let people see it, otherwise, the lives of me and Doctor Lin will not be saved." ”
Qingbao also sighed: "It's okay for me to pass on a message, but when are you like this?" ”
I didn't expect Qingbao to be as clear as an adult at such a young age, and Wanyan was stunned for a while.
After a long time, she smiled sadly: "I don't know, maybe it's to death, and we're not together." ”
Qingbao was afraid that someone would come, so she didn't have the heart to talk to her about this sensitive topic, so she asked for silver from Wanyan and left.
The three children had sold all the sugar, and by the time they got home, it was dark.
When I got home, Huang Liuniang was lying on the kang covered with a quilt, four pillars and five pillars shrunk in the corner like frightened birds, while Xia Shouping was busy cooking under the stove.
Erzhu didn't notice anything wrong, and as soon as he entered the house, he shouted loudly: "Dad, mother, we sold all the sugar again today." ”
Xia Shouping responded sullenly under the stove: "Okay." Wash your hands and face first, and then eat. ”
Huang Liuniang didn't move, she was still lying on the kang with her head covered.
Qingbao said to Sizhu: "Fourth brother, did my father and mother quarrel?" ”
Sizhu looked at Huang Liuniang, who was motionless, and cowered and said, "My mother and my eldest mother quarreled, and my grandmother scolded my mother." ”
After Qingbao's careful questioning, Qingbao learned what happened from Sizhu's mouth.
After breakfast today, Xia Shouping and his wife, Xia Shouquan and his wife, and Xia Shouye and his wife took the big tiger and the two tigers to the field to plant sorghum.
According to the habit of previous years, it is still the land where the boss Xia Shoulai came to his house first.
In line with the idea of not taking advantage of the loss, Yang desperately sprinkled manure on his own fields.
Seeing that she had sprinkled too much, Huang Liuniang said beside her: "Sister-in-law, this dung is not picked up by your family, so let's leave some for us." Your family's land is originally good land, but our family's land is still thin, and you have used this dung, so will our family's crops still grow? ”
Yang Shi was immediately unhappy, and snorted coldly: "What's wrong with my family's more fertilization?" My family has four laborers for farming, and your family has only produced two, so I didn't let your two families give me a discounted salary, and I should use more fertilizer. ”
Huang Liuniang said: "The big tiger and the second tiger don't even have fifteen, so this counts as labor?" Then I will call them to the five pillars of my family, and my family will provide seven laborers, sister-in-law, you should find the wages of my three people. ”
A few days ago, I also accompanied Huang Liuniang's family for two taels of silver, and the Yang family was already uncomfortable, but now it is said that Huang Liuniang can't do it, the new hatred and old grudges are added together, and the Yang family suddenly sprinkled it, sat on the ground and kicked his legs and cried loudly: "Huang Liuniang, you bullied me, right?" Come on, everyone, come and see, my brother-in-law has bullied my sister-in-law, and I haven't grown up or young......"
At this time, it was the time to farm, and there were people in every house, and she made such a fuss, and after a while, she surrounded a circle of people.
I don't know who sent the letter to Mrs. Xia, but after Mrs. Xia came, the pioneer dispersed to see the lively crowd, and then listened to Yang's cry.
The old lady first scolded the Yang family for a few words, stopped the Yang family's spitting, and then scolded Huang Liuniang and said: "The young and the old are orderly, this is the ancestral training of the Xia family, even if your sister-in-law takes advantage, how can you, as a brother-in-law, talk back to her in public?" You have to lose the face of the old Xia family, don't you? Isn't it just a bit of dung, as for being so noisy? I don't know the general situation! ”
A big hat that didn't know the general situation was buttoned down, Huang Liuniang's tears fell, Mrs. Xia glanced at her two daughters-in-law with disgust, and said to Lin Shouping: "Take care of your daughter-in-law when you go home, now sprinkle the manure on your eldest brother's house first, and then plant the land." ”
Xia Shouping has never dared to resist in front of his mother, and obediently sprinkled a lot of manure on the eldest brother's family and helped the eldest brother's family plant the land.
Zhang's heart is too much, and when he saw that the dung was not enough, after planting the land of the eldest brother's house, he asked everyone to plant her family first, and when Xia Shouping's family planted it, there was not much dung.
The land is not good, and the manure applied is less, so you can imagine what this year's grain will look like.
Huang Liuniang, who was bullied by her mother-in-law and the Yang family, coupled with worries about the crops, and hated her husband for being cowardly and uncompetitive, was full of anger, and after returning home, she lay down on the kang and ignored Xia Shouping.
Qingbao looked at the poor mother, and hated Xia Shouping in her heart, Huang Liuniang was pregnant, it was a little inappropriate to let her go to the ground, and he was bullied and didn't defend her, such a man......
Qingbao was really disappointed in this cowardly and foolish cheap father.
From this day on, Huang Liuniang no longer cares about family affairs, lying on the kang every day, not lighting the fire, not cooking, not washing clothes, and caring about the children, of course, not talking to Xia Shouping. She will eat the rice when she brings it, and she will not say that Xia Shouping is good after eating. No matter how softly Xia Shouping begged, Huang Liuniang no longer paid attention to him.
Qingbao couldn't get used to Xia Shouping being so cowardly and foolish, and he didn't say a few good words to him, so he let the couple go on with a cold war every day.
Huang Liuniang quit, and Xia Shouping had to take care of all the housework at home.
I make breakfast and lunch in the morning, go to sell sugar after eating, and when I come back in the evening, I hurriedly make dinner, and after dinner, I boil sugar and make sugar in the dim light. is so busy every day, within a few days, people have lost a lot of weight.
Huang Liuniang made up her mind this time and ignored him again, no matter how he showed goodwill, she didn't say a word to him again.
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