Chapter 59: Scolding
Guan Wen woke up early in the morning of the second day, his head was still a little confused, and he remembered yesterday's events in a trance when he saw his daughter-in-law's sleeping face, and he was annoyed and funny for a while.
Getting up lightly to wash, Guan Wen went to the big kitchen to ask for two steamed buns, and when he came back, he saw that Li Xin had woken up, his clothes were also dressed, and he was counting their things.
"Awake?"
"Well, I heard the door close when you went out." Li Xin looked back at Guan Wen with a smile, "Did you talk to Steward Cui?" Shall we leave later? ”
Guan Wen handed the steamed bun to Li Xin, "Let's leave later, Steward Cui also knows that we are leaving today." ”
Li Xin took the steamed bun and asked for two mouthfuls and handed it back to Guan Wen, went straight to pack up their baggage, and began to clean the house. Guan Wen ate the remaining half of the steamed bun with water, and put the other steamed bun into his arms.
After cleaning the house and folding the quilt, the two left Cui's house hand in hand.
When I went out of the corner door, I ran into Aunt Yuan.
Li Xin almost forgot about this stove lady.
Aunt Yuan stepped forward with a shy face and approached Li Xintao, "Sister-in-law Guan is leaving?" ”
Li Xin said lightly, and didn't give Aunt Yuan a chance to speak at all, "I'm sorry, Auntie, we're in a hurry, so we won't chat with you, if we have fate in the future, we will meet again." ”
As he spoke, he couldn't help but pull Guan Wen away.
Guan Wen was a little strange, "Why do you seem to be hiding from that aunt?" We're not in such a hurry. It's still early......"
Li Xin glared at him, and thought that Guan Wen didn't know about it, and he didn't blame him. waved his hand and said, "There are too many things to calculate people in the courtyard of the house, and I don't want to deal with her, lest she be calculated." We're going back anyway, so we don't have to do anything with her. ”
Guan Wen was thoughtful. Carrying two burdens on his shoulders. took out the steamed bun from his arms, "You only ate two bites, where is enough, you have to walk for a long time on the way, eat this." ”
The steamed buns are quite big, and Li Xin is full enough to eat half of them. Guan Wen is a tough guy and must have eaten more than her. Li Xin broke a small piece and pushed the rest to Guan Wen, "I only ate two bites, and it's enough to eat these again." You have to eat the rest cleanly, don't waste it. ”
Guan Wen was about to stuff the steamed buns into her, and Li Xin said angrily: "I'm not a rice bucket." Tight enough. You eat yours, and you don't starve me. ”
Guan Wen had no choice but to eat the leftover steamed buns by himself, and sighed: "How precious are the white-flour steamed buns...... It's all reluctant to eat. ”
"In the future, our family will have white rice every day, a meal of braised pork, white flour steamed buns are often served on the table, and my daughter will drink red wine." Li Xin smiled at Guan Wen, "Awen, the days will be more and more prosperous, you see, isn't the fourth brother's marriage also done naturally?" We have gained a lot this time. You can also slowly save a dowry for Ah Xiu. ”
Guan Wen hugged Li Xin excitedly, "Don't you blame me for thinking about my younger brothers and sisters and ignoring us?" ”
Li Xin shook his head, "If you ignore them, I will feel cold." Eyeballs rolled. But. After they got married, they had their own home. We can't care about them anymore. The fourth brother is not young, the same age as me, right? is twenty years old, and when you become a family, you have to look like a parent, you can't always stand in front of him, and you should let him know that he also has responsibilities. ”
Guan Wen listened silently, nodded and said, "I know, Xiaosi is also smart and sensible, and he won't know this." ”
Li Xin smiled and didn't speak.
The seven brothers and sisters of the Guan family, and the one who is better with Li Xin is Ah Xiu's sister-in-law. Her husband's younger brother is inconvenient for her to have more contact, but her sister can understand more. Ah Xiu's age is there, and she can't be delayed, or she will have to get married soon, and she won't be with her for long, speaking of which, in the next two or three years, only Ah Mei may be by her side.
Grandparents and father-in-law are still there, it is very difficult to separate the family, Li Xin doesn't want to separate the family now, just thinking that if Guan Wuguan can marry his daughter-in-law into the door, the four brothers will have their own homes, and there is no need to mention the separation of the family at that time, and the four brothers can discuss the separation of the family. After all, there were too many people in the Guan family at that time, and it is estimated that there will be more friction.
Humans are social animals, and a society composed of family units requires human connections. It's just that the brothers are separated by a layer, as the saying goes, the smell of the near and the fragrance of the distance, or the distance can produce some beauty.
She won't mention these thoughts to anyone for the time being.
It is impossible to say that she is not selfish. Guan Wen felt that she didn't hide her selfishness, and she didn't refute them with her heart and lungs to their family. The husband thinks that it is a good thing that she is virtuous and reasonable, although this virtuous is mixed with some careful thinking and calculating by her, but it is harmless, isn't it?
The journey was faster, and when it was close to noon, the two finally arrived at Lotus Village.
I haven't seen the courtyard of the Guan family's house for more than a month, and Li Xin really misses it. The two quickened their pace and walked to the door of the house, Guan Wen slapped the door and shouted in: "Second brother, fourth brother, open the door!" ”
"Here we go!"
The sound of Guan Quan was heard, and in a few moments the door was opened. Guan Quan put a sweat towel around his neck to open the door, "Big brother, sister-in-law, are you back?" ”
"Hmm."
Guan Wen entered the door with a smile, Li Xin took the burden on his shoulders and went to their room by himself, Guan Wen naturally wanted to go to see his grandfather and father first.
was unpacking her bags and packing up her clothes in the house, Ah Mei stumbled in, her eyes were red, her nose was also red, and she began to cry softly when she saw Li Xin sob. Before Li Xin could ask Ah Mei what had happened, she vaguely heard someone shouting loudly from the other side of the hall: "You are not filial!" ”
Li Xin was startled, and hurriedly pulled Ah Mei, and asked softly while comforting her: "Ah Mei Mo cried, tell my sister-in-law, what happened?" ”
Ah Mei just shed tears and didn't say a word for a long time. Li Xin is not good, leave Ah Mei and go to the hall now, thinking that Guan Wen is also there, it should be no big deal, his heart was slightly relaxed, and he frowned slightly, "Ah Mei, what about your fifth sister?" ”
Ah Mei shook her head and said softly, "I went to Sister Xing'er's house to play with Xiaokang." ”
Li Xin frowned, "Why don't you follow?" ”
"I don't want to go...... Ah Mei said and cried again, with a thick crying nasal voice: "Dad scolded the fifth sister ......"
Li Xin couldn't. I could only coax Ah Mei in a low voice, took a handkerchief to wipe her tears, let her sit on the edge of the bed, and cleaned up her clothes while talking to her. Unconsciously looked around the room. I always felt like something was wrong. But I can't remember.
Ah Mei wiped her tears and just breathed low, her lips were tightly pursed, as if she was hiding something, and she didn't go out of Li Xin's place.
Li Xin was very surprised, Ah Mei has never been too close to her, and there has never been such a thing as "Lai" in her bedroom. Li Xin was even more curious about what happened to Ah Mei.
The clothes were packed and piled into the box of clothes, Li Xin took Ah Mei's hand and said, "Sister-in-law hasn't gone to see grandpa and father-in-law when she comes back, can you go with your sister-in-law?" ”
Ah Mei quickly shook her head and shrank on the bed. "Dad, dad wants to scold ......"
"Ah Mei didn't do anything wrong, Dad won't scold you."
"Dad wants to scold!" Ah Mei shook her head stubbornly. even dragged Li Xin's hand, "Dad scolds the fifth sister, and he also scolds the sister-in-law's ......"
Li Xin heard it in a fog, and wanted to ask Ah Mei, but the bedroom door opened with a "bang", Guan Wentie came in with a blue face, and saw that Ah Mei was stunned for a moment, so he turned around and closed the door.
However, as the door opened, Guan Wen's father's voice naturally slipped in with Guan Wen, "This family is still my home!" I'm still your father! You unfilial son! ”
Li Xin was shocked!
Guan Ming has always given her the feeling that is. Although this father-in-law prefers his youngest son and doesn't pay much attention to other children, he has always been afraid of Guan Wen. As long as Guan Wen opened his mouth, he wouldn't say anything more. It's only been more than a month, why has my father-in-law's personality changed?
Li Xin was puzzled. Seeing that Guan Wen's face was not good. Ah Mei shrank into a ball again, thought about it and asked tentatively, "Ah Wen." What's wrong? Quarrel with your father-in-law? ”
Guan Wen waved his hand with an expression that didn't want to say more. Li Xin didn't know much and asked, so she turned to Ah Mei and said, "Ah Mei, it's about to have lunch at this point, right?" Is it okay to go to Sister Xing'er's house and ask your fifth sister to come back? ”
Ah Mei glanced at Guan Wen timidly, and called out "big brother" in a low voice, listening to Guan Wen's answer, as if relieved, she shrank out of the door slowly.
Li Xin closed the door, frowned, pulled Guan Wen to sit on the bed, and asked him in a low voice, "What happened?" The father-in-law is so angry, and Ah Mei can't say anything clearly. ”
Guan Wen held his forehead and sighed for a long time: "Xin'er, do you think I did something wrong?" ”
"What?"
"As soon as I went to see my father today, he put on a face to show me, saying that the sixth brother's shackles were about to be handed over, and asked me why I hadn't taken the money out yet. I said that I forgot to be busy with the fourth brother's affairs recently, and I didn't have any money to spare, so my father said that I could take out the money for the fourth brother's dowry, but I couldn't get the money on the sixth brother? pointed at me and scolded me, and said that the dowry was not carried out of the house, but directly from the town to the Hu family, which was too embarrassing for the Hu family, and lost his face or something......"
Li Xin's face slowly sank. Guan Wen definitely didn't say it, his father even scolded her. Ah Mei said that her father scolded Ah Xiu and scolded her, probably because she scolded her for these dowries, and she didn't pass his hand.
Guan Wen rubbed his cheeks, "Ah Xiu said a few words that made her father unhappy, and she was scolded by her father, she also had the temperament and hid away from the apricot girl." When the second brother came to raise the dowry, he wanted to tell me that my father's nose was not a nose and his eyes were not eyes, and he was afraid that it would affect our mood at work, so he didn't say anything. ”
Li Xin thought about it, at that time, Guan Wu really looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and he could understand the connection before and after.
But this father-in-law is too chilling! They are the eldest brother and sister-in-law, and they go out to work to earn the dowry of their younger brother's marriage, but he, the father, only thinks about the younger son's bondage? Is the bride price more important or the bundle more important? What's the problem with delaying a period of time? But if the dowry can't be carried over after time, it is called unlucky! Can't even tell the priorities of my father-in-law? Or is it that in his eyes, he only has to accept this son, and the other sons and daughters are not as good as his precious son with a finger?
Li Xin was very resentful, but seeing that Guan Wen was so angry, she didn't say anything, stroked his back and comforted him, and said softly: "Don't be angry, you still have to have lunch...... The fourth brother is about to get married, and it's not good for the family to be like this. I'll pour you a glass of water, you take it slowly, and getting angry won't solve the problem. (To be continued)