Xiangling walked to the gate of the city and found that Zhou Langzhong had returned, his face was full of spring, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

The third son secretly told Xiangling that Zhou Langzhong was talking about visiting a friend in the hospital, but in fact, he walked around the medical hall where he refused to keep pine needle wine last time.

Informed from door to door, his pine needle wine was approved by the organization, and he would supply the barracks for a long time in the future, so he would not worry about sales, and he would properly find face for himself.

Xiangling couldn't help but be handsome, and felt that Zhou Langzhong was in his fifties, and he was clearly a three-and-a-half-year-old naïve ghost.

The donkey cart returned to Yushu Village first, Zhou Niangzi wanted to leave Xiangling at home to eat a fish banquet, Xiangling was in a hurry to go home and said goodbye politely.

Zhou Langzhong had no choice but to let the third son drive the donkey cart to send Xiangling home.

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When I returned to Chujia Village, I saw that several families were rushing to Lizheng's house, and they were all filled with righteous indignation.

When she got home, Xiangling asked Jiang suspiciously, "Mother, what happened?" I see everybody rushing home. ”

Jiang put down the work in his hand, sighed and said, "My mother is also gone." It's a pity that Li Zheng has no choice but to guard it strictly. ”

Xiangling's right eyelid jumped, thinking of Zhang Ren and Zhang Xiaocao that she saw halfway, and said in surprise: "It can't be Zhang Ren and Zhang Xiaocao coming to our village, right?"

Jiang glanced at his daughter in surprise and found that her daughter was not as scared as she imagined, so she felt a little relieved: "Zhang Ren's uncle is sick and lying on the kang, Zhang Ren, his stepson, should be taken care of, and he will live in our village in the future." That Zhang Xiaocao, after being retired back to her parents' house, heard that her sister-in-law would not allow her, so she broke the jar and married Zhang Ren. ”

"Stepson? Isn't it true that only the same clan and the same clan can succeed? How could Zhang Ren live at his stepmother's uncle's house? Xiangling was a little suspicious, she never expected that Zhang Ren and Chujia Village would have this untidy and chaotic relationship.

Jiang pouted and said: "If you have money, you are your father, and if you have milk, you are your mother, and if you say that it sounds good, you are adoptive, but in fact, you are poor and sold to your uncle." His uncle couldn't control him at all, and he didn't want to fall ill, but this Zhang Ren became filial and came back to serve. ”

Xiangling didn't believe that Zhang Ren's livestock was kind, and when he returned to Chujia Village, he might have some kind of heart.

and that Zhang Xiaocao, it's not a thing, in the future, the original husband Chu Gang and the current husband Zhang Ren both live in the same village, and they don't look up and see anyone who looks up, so it's strange if they don't fight.

Xiangling has already learned Zhang Xiaocao's dark heart, maybe she came back to Chujia Village to "do her filial piety", which was also a bad idea she gave, so she wanted to block her ex-mother-in-law and ex-husband's brother.

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Xiangling didn't think about Zhang Ren's bad things, cut the pork belly into small rectangular bricks, blanched them with water, then put oil, put sugar, put the meat over, put the sugar red and then put the water, did not pass the meat pieces, threw the dozen quail eggs that he picked up a few days ago inside, and collected the juice on a slow fire.

Let Jiang paste miscellaneous grain cakes around the pot, and Xiangling carried two bundles of firewood to the new house.

When passing by a courtyard, Xiangling suddenly turned her head, feeling as if someone was looking at her, and after a closer look, there was only an earthen wall, and nothing else.

Xiangling ignored it and continued to the new house.

Today's work ended early, Liu Xiwang and Li Shishi were no longer there, and the courtyard had already built a seven-eyed fire dragon stove with a hole in Xiangling, and a grass shed was built outside the stove to avoid being rained;

The original cauldron will definitely not be used, so I have to re-order seven iron pots with different functions.

When he got to the courtyard, he opened the stack of firewood and revealed the cellar below.

Not to mention, Liu Xiwang and Li Shishi did a very fine job, the excess soil was cleaned up, and even the simple vertical ladder was erected inside.

Xiangling took out the wooden ladder, filled in all the firewood visible to the naked eye, filled most of the cellar, lit a handful of firewood and grass with flint and threw it in, and the inside immediately crackled and burned, like a brick cellar, until half an hour later, all the firewood was burned out, and a layer of ashes burned under the ground.

The reason why Xiangling does this is to kill the cellar, at the same time, the soil is a clay layer, so that after burning, the clay layer is burned to be solid, destroying the living environment of mice and other organisms, and the cellar achieves a vacuum effect, which is clean and hygienic and conducive to preservation and eating.

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When I got home, the rice was just ready, the mixed dough cakes and braised pork were served in a pot, and the kang was served, and the family of four plus Xiaoshan was another gluttonous feast.

Xiaoshan touched his bulging belly, and said with a melancholy expression: "Sister Xiangling, count the days, my father should come back the day after tomorrow, I am looking forward to my father's return, but I don't look forward to my father's return." ”

Xiangling smiled and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Xiaoshan sighed in annoyance and said, "I'm afraid that my father will come back and won't let me go to your house to eat delicious food, I'm so sad." ”

Xiaoshan got off the kang with a long sigh, pulled on his shoes and went home, this has become his norm, one day to Xiangling's house to mix this meal in the afternoon, lunch and overnight at home.

Xiangling suddenly remembered the conversation between the widow named "Brother Zhao" and a woman that day, and the fox asked Jiang: "Mother, Xiaoshan is not Uncle Changlin's biological son?" Hasn't Uncle Changlin ever been married? ”

Jiang glanced at Xiangling in surprise, nodded and said: "Xiaoshan is the baby that your Uncle Changlin picked up in the woods, it was as small as a cat cub at that time, it was your Uncle Changlin who begged for milk and fed it from house to house, a big man with a nursing child, it's not easy to talk about a daughter-in-law." Your Uncle Changlin and his father gave Zhang Luo when he was alive, and when he didn't have anyone three years ago, your Uncle Changlin didn't even say that he didn't care, the father and son were used to being wild, they had meat to eat, they had money to build, and their lives were too casual. ”

It turned out that Ge Changlin was holding the title of a little mountain father, and he was still an unmarried middle-aged man.

If this is really a concubine with the Jiang family, it will be a good day, Xiangling couldn't help but sigh again, this matter is easy to say, but it is too difficult to implement.

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Before dawn, Xiangling got up, Jiang sat up in shock, dressed together, and asked, "Xiangling, what are you doing, my mother is with you!" ”

Because Zhang Ren came to settle in the village, the Jiang family was afraid of the idea of beating Xiangling again, so he secretly decided that no matter where Xiangling went, he must follow.

Xiangling said with a smile: "Mother, because there is no evidence in the past, Li Zheng can't object to Zhang Ren's return to the village." Now the whole village is staring at Zhang Ren, and Zhang Ren will definitely not dare to blatantly do anything out of the ordinary in the village. ”

"And," Xiangling took out the slingshot in her arms and said arrogantly: "I'm wild now, Zhang Ren dares to provoke me, I will hit him in the eye like a pheasant!" ”

No matter what Xiangling said, the Jiang family and Chu Xia were still not at ease.

Xiangling rolled her eyes and said, "Mother, Zhang Ren will live in Chujia Village in the future, we can't not leave the house for the rest of our lives, right?" In this way, if I go out of the village and promise not to go alone, Zhang Ren will not dare to start. ”

Seeing that Jiang and Chu Xia's expressions were loose, Xiangling quickly carried the basket on her back and went out with a firewood knife and rope.

As soon as I went out, I saw Liu Xiwang running in a panic, and when he saw Xiangling, he said with a worried face: "Xiangling, the firewood in the new house has been stolen and there is not a single left!" ”

Xiangling remembered that she burned the cellar yesterday, Liu Xiwang didn't know at all, and explained with a smile: "I didn't lose it, I used it to burn the cellar." ”

Liu Xiwang breathed a sigh of relief, and wanted to ask Xiangling what he was doing in the cellar, but he was afraid that Xiangling would be too concerned and he didn't want to help with the work, so the words became "I'll chop wood again, you can burn it." ”

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