"Can you still eat this local vegetables?"

"Try it once, and it tastes okay." Bai Li was not stingy, and directly handed some fried vegetables to Old Man Tao: "These vegetables, fried eggs, and dumplings are all very delicious, but unfortunately in this house, let alone eggs, even flour can't be found." ”

"Flour?" Old man Tao pinched his ears: "Girl, if I can find flour, would you like to make me the dumplings you said." ”

"Flour is not a monster, I don't believe it can be found in the mountains and forests." Bai Li snorted lightly.

"If there is no in the mountains and forests, can there be any in this Huaxi Town?" Old man Tao touched his nose: "You wait, I'll find flour for you." ”

In a farmhouse not far from Bai's house, smoke curls from the cooking. In the hall, a rusty iron pot was boiling the ground vegetables, and in the middle of the ground vegetables, there were a few bones that were gnawed on the leftovers. The two children kept licking the corners of their lips, and a woman with a sour face stretched out her thin hands and tightly grasped the shoulders of the young son in front of her.

"Mother, can you still eat this gnawed bone?" One of the children asked.

"If you can eat it, why can't you eat it." The woman glanced towards the door: "This bone is boiled, and the nutrients will penetrate into the soup, you and your brother can eat more to grow taller and stronger." ”

"Brother, don't you eat it?" Another child asked.

"Your brother doesn't eat, your brother is full just thinking about that dead girl." The woman pinched the child's shoulder: "You two must not move the pot, you know no, mother go and say a word to your brother." ”

The children nodded, their eyes glued to the pot.

The woman patted her clothes, went out of the house, and went out into the courtyard to look at the eldest son, who was looking up at the sky.

"If you think about it, you know it's useless to think about it. I can tell you, as long as I'm alive, you don't want to marry that girl from the Xu family. ”

"Mother, didn't you like her before?" The young man turned to look at his mother: "Just because you asked me to go to the Xu family to borrow food, Chunliu couldn't give it to me?" ”

"Mother is the kind of stingy person." said that he was not stingy, but the hatred at the corner of his mouth was full of hatred: "The grain belongs to their Xu family, they don't borrow from us, and my mother can't say anything." Mother just can't get used to that Chunliu deceiving you. Their Xu family just has a few more acres of land than us, and they are not a wealthy family. You will be the champion in the future to be an official, and you are willing to marry Chunliu, which is to look up to their old Xu family. As a result, this Chunliu, who doesn't know what to do, doesn't abide by women's morals, and actually pulls and pulls with people outside. ”

"Mother, don't talk nonsense, Chunliu is not that kind of person."

"Why not, I'm your mother, can I lie to you? Tell you Zhang Xi, I opened my eyes wide and watched Chunliu with other men. If you weren't my son, I wouldn't bother to care about you, but your surname is Zhang, your name is Zhang Xi, you were raised by me with a handful of and urine, and I will never allow you to be coaxed and deceived by her so much. ”

"Mother, you have to speak with your conscience, and you have to tell evidence when you talk about things. Even if you don't like Chunliu anymore, you can't gossip about people behind your back. Zhang Xi looked at his mother's mouth: "Behind the scenes, people will be plucked out of their tongues." ”

"Okay, you Zhang Xi, you actually cursed me to death for that girl in Chunliu." The woman turned around a few times, and when she saw a wooden stick, she grabbed it and struck at her eldest son: "I'll kill you, I'll kill you, you white-eyed wolf." ”

Zhang Xi stood motionless in the snow, letting his mother beat him.

"Mother, you can fight if you want, it's just that my son begs you, don't say those bad things to Chunliu anymore. My son has promised you that he will not go to the Xu family again, will not see Chunliu again, and will not think about marrying her. Mother, with a mother like you, my son can't bear to let Chunliu step into the threshold of our Zhang family. ”

"It's a sin, it's a sin, why did I give birth to a son like you who eats inside and out, and wants to be angry with his own mother for outsiders." When the woman threw away her stick, she began to sit down in the snow and weep.

Zhang Xi sighed, looked at his mother and shook his head, turned around and went back to his own room.

There were no bystanders, so the woman raised her hand, wiped her face hard, first went back to the hall to arrange the food for her two younger sons, and then went out with her sleeves on. She deliberately stood outside the courtyard of the Xu family and cursed, first saying that the daughter of the Xu family, Xu Chunliu, was pestering her son, and then saying that the Xu family was black-hearted, knowing that the people in the village had no food or drink, and did not take out the food hidden at home.

Father Xu really couldn't listen to it, and wanted to go out with something to beat her, but was stopped by Aunt Xu: "Dad, what do you do with her, in our Huaxi Village, who doesn't know that Zhang Xi's mother is a person who doesn't have a door, a broken mouth, and likes to gossip." Our Xu family, behaves properly, sits upright, and is not afraid of people's discussions. ”

"What about Chunliu, where did the dead girl go, shouldn't she really go to find that Zhang Xi?" When Father Xu mentioned his daughter, he also hated her and didn't fight.

"No, no, I didn't go to Zhang Xi." Aunt Xu hurriedly said: "Dongzi is sick and has a high fever, and it just so happens that we still have some herbs at home, so I asked Chunliu to take it." Counting the time, it's time to come back now. Alas, if you want to talk about Zhang Xi's child, I really don't have to say it, but I just met such a mother...... Alas! ”

Outside the door, Chunliu, who had just returned from delivering herbs to Dongzi, saw Zhang Xiniang guarding outside her door and quickly stopped. She didn't want to have any head-on conflict with her, but the more she heard her words, the more unpleasant she became, so she couldn't help but step forward and said in a low voice: "Auntie, I'm not the kind of person you said!" ”

"What kind of person are you?" The woman glanced at Chunliu, "You think I'm blind, if you don't have an unclear relationship with that Dong Li, can he give you more when he distributes the vegetables?" ”

"That's what I asked Brother Dong for, and Brother Dong has a good heart."

"Bah, why doesn't he give us more of them. Also, yesterday when the soup was made, why did the old man laugh when he came to you, and even gave you more meat. I still don't know about you, don't you just rely on your appearance to ask for benefits everywhere. ”

"Auntie, you-" Chunliu tightened her mouth, crying aggrieved, but she couldn't speak.

"Look at the look of the mourning star you were born, you cry at every turn, and people think that I bullied you when they see it." Zhang Xiniang spat at the ground: "Do you think I am our family Zhang Xi, and I can feel sorry for you when I see your tears?" ”