Lily learned about the separation of the Song family from Song Haonian, and saw that he didn't seem to be in a good mood, so he hurriedly comforted him: "The family is not together, and it is uncomfortable to be strong together, so it is better to split the family earlier." ”

Song Haonian said: "I know, it was that I was not comfortable at home that day, they didn't like me, I didn't like them, and now they are separated, I just think it's funny." ”

In the end, the Song family was indifferent, which cooled Song Haonian's heart early, and it didn't take long for him to let go of the separation of the family and concentrate on taking care of his daughter-in-law. Who knew that two days later, there was a rumor of a fight between the two brothers of the Song family, and Li Caifeng came to gossip: "I heard that when you divided your mother-in-law's cage, your third uncle said that your sister-in-law was in front and quietly hid good things

Something else. ”

Li Caifeng knew that no matter how powerful Song Haojie was, he couldn't go through his sister-in-law's box, and the jewelry and money that Niu lost might be lying in Dong's cage.

Niu's illness really gave all the good things she had saved for her youngest son for half her life to Dong's in vain.

Lily saw Song Haonian coming in and hurriedly gave Li Caifeng a look and told her to stop, Song Haonian saw her eyes flying wildly, and said with a smile: "You are also boring at home, it is rare to say a few words to your sister-in-law, you can say whatever you want, don't worry about me." ”

Li Caifeng's face flushed, remembering that it was Song Haonian's brother who was fighting after all, and his face was not good-looking, so he hurriedly pulled the conversation elsewhere: "You taught Xing'er the words before, she learned everything, when will you ask her to learn a new one?"

Lily smiled: "You can come whenever you want, I'll be idle all day." ”

She now has to raise a baby, she can't do work, and playing a few lines is the limit, so she has to teach Xing'er to read and write to pass the time.

Xing'er is also clever, the things she learned before have not been lost at all, Lily estimates that although she is not as good as the students she has taught seriously in the past, when she gets married in a few years, she can write and settle accounts, and it is not a problem to marry a talented woman to a squire's house.

She is also well-behaved, and every day she says some childish words to comfort Lily, and the days are infinitely interesting.

Later, Lily heard Li Caifeng talk about it, and the two brothers of Song Haoshi and Song Haojie had fought since they fought, and they couldn't even see each other, as if they were enemies. I live in a house again, I don't see you when I look down, and I am not happy twice.

Song Haoshi called the masons fiercely, and in his heart, he took out some money to buy bricks, and built a red brick wall along the west side of the hall house, dividing the family into two.

You must know that the gate of the Song family is open in the southeast corner, and this wall is not built along the center line of the courtyard, but along the west side of the hall, leaving only a narrow passage to the west.

The first Song Haojie called him locked up in it and couldn't get out, so hated that Song Haojie splashed the dirt that Niu had drowned on the wall, and scolded Song Haoshi for not being a thing.

Coincidentally, at that time, Jinbao was watching the excitement under the wall, and he splashed his body inattention, and immediately cried like thunder, Dong was distressed, and scolded Song Haojie across the wall, and she could be heard screaming and scolding across the street.

Song Haojie was tired of scolding, went back to the house to drink saliva, moved a stool to cushion under the wall, and went out over the wall in a flash, poor Song Xiuxiu and Niu's and Yuanyuan were still trapped inside, except for the three rooms is a narrow yard, and the sun in the morning can't shine into the house, which is really pitiful.

Song Haojie came back after going out until dark, he was drunk and drunk, and when he opened his mouth, he asked Song Xiuxiu what he wanted to eat, and Song Xiuxiu said: "I don't even have a stove at home, how can I eat?"

Song Haojie said: "Farts don't use what they don't have, eat my family's food for nothing, live in my house, and can't even clean up the food, it's better to sell you all to the kiln, and you can make a few bucks." ”

Song Xiuxiu trembled with fear, and hurriedly took out the pork patty that Song Hao gave the day before, it was cold and it was not bad. Although it is cold, there is a lot of meat in it, and it tastes quite fragrant.

Song Haojie ate two cakes, only to feel choked and panicked, and wanted to drink water again, Song Xiuxiu had to give him the last bit of water to drink, and he and Niu's endured a dry mouth all night.

On the second day, Song Haojie slept until three poles before waking up, and when he saw the shadow falling from the brick wall, he was scolded, and the Dong family next door was not to be outdone, and smashed the house to a clanging bell.

Song Xiuxiu came to Song Haojie and said: "Second brother, it's not a matter like this, we don't even have a door, it's really not like that." ”

Song Haojie leaned at Song Xiuxiu and sneered, "What do you have in mind?"

"We've got to open the door and get another stove. "Song Xiuxiu is afraid of being afraid, she has come to this point, if she doesn't grit her teeth and go on, I'm afraid that she will die in the near future. Song Haojie snorted and sneered for a long time, got up and went to Niu's house to take out a few dollars to climb over the wall and go out, and it didn't take long for a gang of gangsters to come in, smash the wall, scold and scold, while disturbing Song Haoshi's family without a peaceful day, while opening a big hole in the courtyard wall on Song Haojie's side

。 Song Xiuxiu saw that some of the adobe that was smashed down was quite complete, and she had the heart to put it away and build a stove, but she didn't expect her to go over, and those gangsters picked her up with the shame of what you said and me, although she divorced Xiao Xiucai, how many days did she be a showcai lady, and playing with her was equivalent to playing with Xiao Xiucai's daughter

Man, these gangsters are so excited just thinking about it.

"Third brother, you don't care!" Song Xiuxiu couldn't help but call Song Haojie in shame, where does Song Haojie care about her?

Song Xiuxiu was angry, ashamed and afraid, so she quickly fled back to Niu's house, closed the door and didn't dare to come out. The gangsters were bored, and after a while, they called Song Haojie and left, and Song Xiuxiu came out and saw that the ground was full of adobe mud, as if he had been ruined by bandits.

Now they only have three rooms, the Niu family lives in the west room, Song Xiuxiu also lives according to her, the first one in the west wing belongs to Song Haojie to live, and the last one originally had some sundries, and the two brothers were all clean when they separated.

Song Xiuxiu carried the adobe, set up a stove in the last room in the west, put Yuanyuan to sleep, put it next to Niu's and said, "Mother, I'll go out to fetch some firewood." ”

Niu's eyes rolled wildly, and he was anxious: It's freezing this day, where can Song Xiuxiu go to get firewood?

Only when there are men in the family who can do work can they have firewood, and only when they have money can they buy charcoal, and they have no choice but to freeze if they have neither of them. Yuanyuan was so cold that she was sobbing clearly, and Niu and her were warm to each other.

Song Xiuxiu said in her heart, even if you chop a willow tree to make people poke the backbone, you have to raise the fire first, otherwise Niang and Yuanyuan will not survive this winter.

She planned to try her luck at Liufu Grange, and really asked her to find something that could be burned: after harvesting the corn, the corn stalks and roots were more than two feet long, and they stood in the ground one by one, so that the sun and wind blew, and they became dry and brittle, and they were burned lightly.

Song Xiuxiu walked to the edge of the ridge, secretly pulled out a dozen straws, patted off the clods of soil on the roots, stuffed them into the back basket, and ran away like a thief.

When she went home, she had to borrow a fire from a neighbor to light the fire, and when the red flame burned the corn stalks, Song Xiuxiu shed tears, as if she had never seen a fire in her life.

These straws can't be burned at all, and a pot of water can't be boiled yet, Song Xiuxiu first poured half-warm water into the bowl and asked Niu Shi and Yuanyuan to drink, so that there was more heat on his body, and he went out to beat the straw again.

This time it wasn't as good as luck before. Straw can burn fire, burned ash can fertilize the field, the little doll on the grange has to beat the straw to help the family work, a group of little dolls found out that Song Xiuxiu stole the straw, and immediately caught up with her and pulled her to the steward to talk.

The new steward of this grange is Liu Sheng's confidant, seeing that it is Song Xiuxiu, he is very disdainful, and it is difficult to punish her because she is Song Haonian's sister, so she only said: "The little doll is not sensible, and when she sees people passing by, she says that she steals, and I will teach them a lesson when I turn back." ”

Song Xiuxiu was desperate, she had to listen to everything the steward said, so she couldn't help nodding and covering the few straws that had just been stuffed into her back. I can't go to Liufu Grange anymore, and other people's families don't grow so much corn, so Song Xiuxiu has to go to Song Haonian to have a look. This time she didn't dare to steal it privately, so she looked for Song Haonian and said: "There is no firewood at home, my mother and Yuanyuan are frozen, second brother, tell me to beat a few corn stalks and burn them."

”

Song Haonian asked: "Old Sanli, you don't care if he is frozen?"

Thinking about Song Haojie's virtue again, not to mention his mother and sister-in-law, he doesn't care if his daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law are frozen. Song Haonian had to sigh: "Our family's straws are all clean, you go to the thatched hut next door to see, they are all piled up there." When Lily heard the movement, she knew that Song Xiuxiu was in a difficult situation now, almost the same as when she came here and was about to starve to death, so she couldn't help but feel a little pity for her, and asked for twenty buns from Li Caifeng for her: "These you mothers and sons can still eat for a few days, take advantage of these days to grab some food and money."

After the wealth, the days to come will be long. ”

If Song Xiuxiu asked her for this and that as soon as she came up, she wouldn't give it. Fortunately, Song Xiuxiu is not so hateful now, she just begs Song Haonian to spare some straw, and she doesn't think about the neatly piled firewood and charcoal behind the house, just by virtue of this, people have a little more respect for her.

Song Xiuxiu was ashamed and moved, and said with red eyes: "Second sister-in-law, I remember your good deeds." ”

Because of the second brother Zhou Ji, Niu's and Song Xiuxiu's mothers drank hot water and ate baked buns. Song Xiuxiu tore off the skin of the bun and boiled it in boiling water to make a paste and fed it to Yuanyuan to eat.

The little doll has a thin throat, and she can't eat such a thick thing, but Yuanyuan has never had a good life since she was born.

Song Haojie sold the land he had just shared, had a large amount of money in hand, and left his mother and sister-in-law to go to the city. Song Xiuxiu had to use the fence to mend the broken wall as a gate, and there were still some furniture at home that were divided and sold to people, making a few bucks and barely making ends meet.

It was a few months later when he learned that his own "dowry field" had been sold by Song Haojie at a price.

The family has no financial resources, and the mothers don't even know where the next meal is, so Song Xiuxiu had to learn the lily, go up the mountain to pick wild fruits, dig wild vegetables, go down to the river to fish, go up to the tree to pick elm money and acacia flowers, and dig out their hearts to get food for the old lady and daughter.

The serious injuries she suffered during childbirth have not yet healed, and the lochia has not stopped, and sometimes she feels that there is a stench under her, and she is waiting for dinner with two mouths in the house, where can she take care of the time to recuperate?