"Dad, big brother, let's come and drink some water and rest." Lan Yi put down the basket and beckoned everyone to rest.

Everyone put down their things, wiped their sweat and walked over, a black and thin man about twenty years old smiled brightly at Lan Yi, and Lan Yi also nodded and smiled. Zhou Weiji said that this man was a cousin of his Zhou family, named Zhou Suyi, who was very good but a mute. Zhou Suyi is 22 years old this year, and he is very close to Zhou Weiji. This time when he was looking for someone to come over to do the work, Zhou Weiji first thought of him.

At this time, a bell rang from the village, and Yu'er was about to get out of school. At this time of the day, no matter who Wen Xuan was playing with, he would run to Yixue on the way home and wait for his brother to go home together, Lan Yi couldn't help but smile, and sure enough, Wen Xuan stood up and pulled Lan Yi.

"Mother."

Lan Yi nodded, "Dad, brother, and everyone are resting, it's noon." ”

When the people in the village are busy with farming, although they don't go home to eat at noon, they will eat something in the fields to rest for a while. Lan Yi's family opened the mountain to pay more wages and didn't care about food, they had to go home to eat.

Wang Chengde responded and asked Lan Yi to take the child first. Lan Yi was almost trotted home by Wen Xuan, she thought that Su Yongshen was teaching in the library on the first day today, and she didn't know his physical condition, so she also sped up.

And when the people resting on the hillside had drunk the water, they were about to disperse. In the past few days, there are still a lot of tomatoes on the hillside, that is, big red fruits, but the fat man who guards the big red fruits not far away has been pulled home by his grandmother and is not often in the field.

Most of the people in the village have also tasted the taste of this fruit, and their simple nature makes it except for a few naughty children and really a few ignorant adults. Not many people will steal other people's food to eat.

Lan Yi planted the most big red fruits, and in addition to giving them away, she also made all kinds of red jams, such as soybean sauce and ginger and garlic. The herbs suggested by Jia are stored and kept for the winter.

When they got to the door, they met Su Yongshen and Yu'er, Lan Yi and the smiling Wenxuan should go up and enter the door together, because of Su Yongshen's inconvenient legs and feet, the three of them did not walk fast, and Yu'er and the baby did not have a trace of impatience on their faces.

With such a son, Lan Yi is very proud.

Enter the gate of the middle courtyard. Su Yongshen crossed the door from the east side near the root of the south wall and returned to the east courtyard where he and Dao Wufeng lived.

Dao Wufeng didn't leave again after he came back, and naturally lived with Su Yongshen, and everyone didn't think it was strange. It's just that Lan Yi rarely sees him. I don't know what he's up to.

Yu'er came over and said, "Mother, I'll carry it for you." As he spoke, he reached out to pick up Lan Yi's back basket.

Lan Yi shook her head: "It's not sinking, it's just some vegetables, let's eat big red fruit egg noodles at noon." Go wash your hands first. ”

The two little buns clapped their hands and laughed happily. This noodle is their favorite food. Wen Xuan patted his head, "Mother, the third baby brother said that if you eat noodles, you will call him." Brother Wazi was cleaning up the grass on the hillside with the baby just now, and he must go home to change his clothes first. ”

Yang's son, Zhou Feiyu, also likes it very much, but the people in the village are not busy with farming now, and they don't eat this meal seriously. The Yang family and Old Man Zhou live in the same place, so it is not good to ask Zhou Feiyu to come over to eat noodles.

"You wash this little dirty face first, this time it's not called Feiyu. I'll talk about that next time. ”

Wen Xuan was puzzled and looked at his mother suspiciously.

"We have fewer noodles and more people today. If you want to keep your baby brother for dinner, you have to tell your mother before we cook another day, so you can prepare. When you wake up from sleep today, you can send some big red fruits to your grandfather's house, and your fourth aunt will be able to make noodles for the family, is this okay? ”

"Good. Mother, the baby is also helping to work today. It's just that the little uncle didn't let the baby do it, and the baby was willing to let me pick up the grass roots because of his help. ”

Wang Chengde and the three of them regarded Wenxuan as their master from the bottom of their bones, so they naturally refused to let the baby do these jobs.

"Weeding and digging trees on the hillside, grandpa and uncle were afraid that the baby would touch it. Later, you go to the garden with your mother to pull weeds, and when you come back, we pick up the duck eggs, okay? ”

"Yes, yes! The baby is going, and the baby hasn't been with his mother for a long time. ”

Lan Yi grabbed his little hand and rubbed his tanned little arm. Recently, I have been busy with marriage, and I don't have much time to spend with my two children, which is my own negligence.

Later, Yu'er was sent to school, and Lan Yi took out the mattress sheet that was soiled last night and went to the bathroom to clean it. She doesn't know if other people will be troubled by soiling the list every night after they get married, and she blushes when she wakes up every day to see the marks left on the list, and she only dares to avoid washing the list. But the list has to be dried in the yard! The scene of the daily order swaying in the wind in the sun made her extremely embarrassed.

After that, she packed up the boiling water, baked a roll of mixed dough and took it to the hillside behind the house. Although she didn't have to worry about the food, she felt that it was a bit too much to let everyone work on the hillside for a day, even if people were no longer hungry, they had to rest at noon.

When Zhou Weiji came back in the evening, Zheng's, Jia's and Lan Yi were weeding in the peony garden with their babies, and Liu's was gossiping on the side with Sanniuniu in his arms. Liu Shi heard the sound of horses' hooves, stood up and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Second sister-in-law, Brother Tuesday is back, why don't you go back and take a look?" ”

Lan Yi shook his head and said, "He went directly to the back hillside, and he was still busy there." I thought that I married Zhou Weiji, and I changed from "sister-in-law" to "second sister-in-law", fortunately, it was not a "younger sister", otherwise it would have been really transferred!

Liu hugged the three Niu Niuniu, patted her on the back and let her milk it, and said: "Father-in-law, the three of them discussed the five acres of hillside next to our family to raise seedlings, and they can also earn more silver." Second sister-in-law, yesterday someone came to the house and asked us if the peony branches were sold this autumn, and the price was very high, Lin Yuan wanted me to ask you an idea. ”

Lan Yi nodded when she heard this, it is indeed faster to buy a branch peony tree, and you can make a lot of money by selling it, and it is not bad to take the opportunity to make a quick buck.

"I think it's okay, the price is set higher, and if you can sell a few trees, count as few. But brother and sister, we now have some family funds in our hands, and I am afraid that there are hundreds of dollars for each peony plant, and we can't sell it with great fanfare, so be careful to make people red. ”

Liu nodded, wiped the corners of Sanniuniu's mouth and said, "Second sister-in-law, I know." Let's plant it on your newly opened hillside first, and sell the rest for a few trees. I'll call my sister-in-law to come over and discuss something with you another day, so I won't say much about it today, and I should go back to clean up and cook." ”

Lan Yi looked at the sun. Stood up and said: "You can sell the peonies that come out of the branches, I have seedlings on the hillside behind me, we are not short of one or two years, and we can exchange cash and be more stable." If there is something, wait a few days, my father and mother will return to Meixian, and we will discuss it again. If there is a shortage of vegetables at home, you just go to the hillside to pick it, I see that the winter melon is almost ready to eat, you can pick it and make dumpling filling. ”

Liu nodded, remembering his childish appearance when his second sister-in-law first came back with her child. He even ran over to sell those vegetables, and said a little embarrassedly: "Sister-in-law, oh." No, second sister-in-law, there are a lot of crops at home, enough to eat. That's right. Yesterday I saw Friday's family nibbling on the street with a big red fruit. You picked it from you, right? She's not a good thing, second sister-in-law, be careful, this is the most skinless and faceless. ”

Lan Yi shook her head helplessly when she heard this. She didn't like the family on Thursday, and even the somewhat cowardly Zhou Yuelian didn't know how to get along, let alone other people. Hu Shi came to pick vegetables, but she couldn't help but give them, and she had to ignore them when dealing with such a thick-skinned person, just a few vegetables left and right. They love to be cheap. Too lazy to cope with it yourself. But isn't there still Jia at home? Jia is a powerful character and soft-spoken. Even without saying a word, just a smile and a look can accurately let the other party know that whatever she just thought was captured by Jia's! It's just that Jia is too lazy to say that he is too lazy to care! This attitude is there, if it weren't for the fact that he was really skinless and faceless, and he was not afraid of shame, who would still be able to mention the courage to take advantage of this little advantage. Hu Shi dares to challenge Jia Shi, then let her come, Lan Yi just to see what is called a small witch.

Hehe, sometimes I think that Jia is the true god.

Yu'er helped on the hillside after school, and picked up duck eggs with Wenxuan to feed the ducks. Zheng looked at it and smiled: "Tao'er, Yu'er, this kid is really sensible, just seven years old and a little adult." Mother thinks he must be a promising, and it is your blessing to have such a son. ”

Lan Yi quickly picked up the horsetail cabbage in the haystack into the back basket, and said helplessly: "I hope he is more naughty, this kid is too sensible and worrying, mother, do you think he can't let go of the things he did when he was a child?" ”

Zheng shook his head, such a young child, it is difficult to say how much he remembers at that time. Jia Shi replied: "I don't look like it, he rarely has nightmares at night, he can eat and sleep, it should be his temperament." Didn't people say, 'Three-year-old looks old', I think our Yu'er is this kind of character, don't look at him silently, the children in the village play with him, but they all listen to him. ”

This is also true, Yu'er likes boxing, although the source is sensible and polite, but he is also a person who refuses to suffer. Lan Yi turned around and helped the two of them pour the duck food into the trough, Jia Shi carried the duck eggs on his back, and the family turned around and went home. Yu'er carried her small schoolbag on her back, pulled her younger brother and walked in front, discussing the shape of the western sky Caixia, Lan Yi also looked at the sky full of Caixia, looked at the thick or light oil paint sky, and remembered Wang Bo's famous sentence: "Luoxia and the lonely bird fly together, and the autumn water grows together in the sky." ”

When it got dark, Lan Yi and the others prepared the meal, and Zhou Weiji and Wang Chengde father and son came back. Yu'er also went to invite Su Yongshen over for dinner, and the four of them drank some wine, which was very enjoyable.

Lan Yi took Yu'er and the baby to do their homework on the kang, and did needlework in their hands. Yu'er's homework at night is mostly to write the big characters taught by Mr. Dictation, and the baby is either watching with his little head, or playing with his own toys, and he is not noisy.

Yu'er did her homework, and Lan Yi took them to Westinghouse to play, and talked to Zheng and Jia by the way.

Lan Yi showed the clothes in her hand to Zheng: "Mother, do you still like this color?" My daughter is planning to make you a down shoulder, and the duck feathers she killed a few days ago have been sunburned. ”

Zheng's face was full of smiles, and the satisfaction of being a mother rose, and he touched the dark purple material and said: "This is a congratulatory gift from Wei Ji's side, you should take it well, and my mother still has to wear it." ”

This material is a congratulatory gift from the prince to Zhou Weiji from the capital, the texture is naturally good, Lan Yi saw that the color was just right, so she cut a piece for Zheng to make clothes, although she was thrifty, she should honor her parents at all.

"Mother, this fabric is suitable for you and Aunt Yao to wear, what are you going to do, there are a lot of fabrics at home. Take some with you when you go. ”

Zheng shook his head and said, "It's inconvenient for my mother to buy anything in Meixian!" You are more remote here, so let's keep it for your Aunt Yao to make clothes. ”

Jia Shi was making an autumn long-sleeved dress for the baby in his hand, raised his head and smiled: "Sister, Tao'er and I are living a farmer's life now, dealing with chickens and ducks and fields every day, where can I wear this material?" I'm afraid that if I go into the garden, I will hang out the silk. You take it, it's also a piece of Peach's heart. ”

Lan Yi saw that Jia's words were calm, and remembered Chunrong's words, so she said tentatively: "Aunt Yao, don't say that, you have to go to the fields, you have to go to the county seat, and you have to go to a happy event in the village." Let's make a few more good clothes and dress decently. Didn't people say that women have to be tidied up, and they will regret it when they are old. ”

Jia and Zheng listened and laughed.

"Sister, it's amazing, this girl will be different when she gets married! This is also preachy, peach, you can do the whole thing, I'm a widow, no one will look at the whole thing. ”

Zheng listened, looked at Jia's young and beautiful appearance and said, "Sister Yao, my brother-in-law has been gone for so many years, and it is not a way for you to be alone all the time." It's better to find a lovely man to marry, and have a partner. ”

When Jia Shi heard this, he shook his head and said, "I'm already this old, I don't want this." Now that life is comfortable, Tao'er treats me like an aunt, so I think it's better to live like this. If I remarry someone who meets a good one, and if I encounter such things again, I'm afraid I won't be able to live. ”

Lan Yi heard this and said with a smile: "Aunt Yao, let's keep our eyes open and find a good one that is worthy of you." In the past few days, let's go to the temple in the county seat to burn incense and ask for a marriage. The presiding officer of the temple is a man of enlightenment, very good, let's just go and ask him to have a look. ”

Zheng nodded: "This is good, marriage is the most difficult to figure out, so it's good to ask the master to take a look." Sister Yao, we don't force it, my sister just hopes that your life is better, if you can't find it, it's nothing, isn't it? ”

Jia Shi lowered his head and didn't speak, Zheng Shi knew her heart knot, so he changed the topic: "Tao'er, let's go to your store and have a look, didn't you say that you opened a shop in the city, and the business is not bad." ”

Lan Yi nodded, and Yu'er leaned over and said, "Mother, I heard Niu Dan say that his brother is doing a good job in the store, let's go and have a look." ”

Niu Xiuyao, the eldest brother of Niu Dan, helped run errands in the garden when the peony garden opened this spring, and he was regarded as a buddy. Because he was smart and diligent, he was transferred to work in a shop in the county town by Xia Shun, and I heard that he did a good job. Sister-in-law Niu was very grateful to Lan Yi for this, and sent her home-grown things several times, Lan Yi said that the child had the ability to do it, but the more she said this, the more Sister-in-law Niu felt that Lan Yi was good, and she refused to take credit for helping, and Lan Yi was very helpless to toss. (To be continued......)