The ox cart was quiet again, and where the ox cart passed, there were mountains and paddy fields on both sides of the road.

In the paddy fields near Shuigou, the farmers all planted the vegetables of the previous season, and from October they harvested the rice, and the industrious croppers planted greens, potatoes, radishes, and some fried beans.

This is about to be the New Year, and some green vegetables can be harvested, which can be made into dried plum cabbage, dried radish, and the side dishes that these farmers eat.

After half an hour, the ox cart came to their village, which was near the roadside.

Very close to the east of the town, many villagers will grow vegetables, grow things in the town to sell, but unfortunately the town's consumption is low, the vegetables are difficult to sell.

People with flexible brains thought of the county seat, after all, there are more rich families in the county.

The ox cart stopped at the entrance of the village, and the group began to give money.

Meihua took out the change from her body and paid the fare for the three people, and these copper plates were the change he had saved in the past few years.

The coachman smiled and took the money, and waited here at the entrance of the village, hoping to wait for a repeat customer, or someone to ask him to send it to another village.

He can't do his business empty, and he has to carry customers or goods back and forth.

He took out a little of the hay that he had set aside and gave it to the cows to eat, for there was no fresh grass to be cut in winter, and the grass for the cows to eat was dried straw.

"Sister, let's go home, grandparents, parents must be very happy to see the eldest sister back."

Jian Muyou knows that selling the eldest sister has made the family's life much better, but the family misses the eldest sister very much, and the father and mother miss it even more.

"Mm-hmm, sister, I'm very happy too." Plum blossom smiled and followed in her brother's footsteps.

The small burden was carried by herself, and the bag of items she carried at the beginning was indeed carried by her younger brother.

The new daughter-in-law didn't say much, and she also had a smile on her face, it seems that this aunt will bring money and goods to their family when she comes back today.

Don't look at the aunt who is just a maid, he has also heard that the person who is a big maid in a big family is similar to the young lady, and the food is very good, and if he follows a good master, maybe he can find a good family for him.

It's not bad to marry with a young lady, and it's much better to be the concubine of a young master from a rich family than to marry a farmer as a wife, and you don't have to go out to work.

She didn't have the ability to think about it, so she could only marry a farmer, which was the best farmer among the families her parents chose for her.

At the beginning, I felt that farmers are farmers, the family environment is better, and farmers still have to do agricultural and industrial farming.

"Brother, isn't our house on the other side of the road?"

Plum blossoms found that they had taken the wrong route and alley, and that they had taken a different way home.

"Eldest sister, we built a new house, the old house is so small, we can't live in it when we grow up, we bought land and built a big house."

"Oh, really?" Meihua also knew that yesterday their house was also eighty or ninety square meters, with only three rooms and a kitchen, and the two younger brothers were going to get married when they grew up, which was not enough to live.

I remember that when I was a child, they all slept in one room and one bed, one room for their parents, one room for their grandparents, and all the miscellaneous things were placed under the bed, and there was not even a utility room.

They passed by the fish pond, and sometimes met people inside, and Jian Mu greeted them.

The people in the village nodded politely, looking at the plum blossoms with strange eyes, Jian Mu had of course introduced, this is his eldest sister.

When the people in the village saw Meihua dressed so well, they all thought that she must have been mixed up.

Other girls in the village wear coarse cloth flowers, how can the cotton clothes worn by plum blossoms be so good?

They came to a house made of yellow mud bricks, which was also a kind of brick burned from yellow mud, smaller than a crooked brick, as big as a green brick, and also a brick fired from a kiln, and the roof was covered with tiles.

"Eldest sister, this is our home."

"Is this really our home? Our home is so big. ”

Meihua looked at this house, similar to other rich families in the village, a courtyard building, with a main house, east and west houses on both sides, a large yard, planted with two longan trees, and chickens walking around in the yard.

The long side of the yard is also planted with melons and vegetables, and peas are planted this season.

The bamboo poles in the yard are drying some of the sun, and the bamboo sieves are drying the dried radish.

Jian Muyou opened the gate of the courtyard with a smile and shouted loudly inside: "Grandparents, we are back, who do you see we brought back?" ”

It's not lunch time yet, the rural people are very diligent, and the elderly will not be idle at home, they will help with the housework.

The two old men who were sitting and working in the house, and a little girl who was doing needlework in the room, all came out of the room curiously.

The two old men of the Jane family, although they wore clothes without patches, were old cotton clothes, white and clean cotton clothes.

They saw Meihua, the granddaughter who had been brought up since childhood, who had not seen her for seven years, and when she grew up, she had changed, and she could still recognize her.

"Big girl, you can finally come back, I miss my grandmother."

Grandma Jane was in tears, her hands trembling and spreading.

"It's great that the big girl is back."

Grandpa Jane's old eyes were in tears, he sold the big girl back then, solved their family's predicament, and was quite sad to be an elder.

There are many people behind the scenes who gossip about them, and they can only bear it silently.

"Sister," the little girl who was doing needlework in her hand, also called.

When the eldest sister was sold, she was very young at that time, and she couldn't remember what her sister looked like, but she looked a little like her.

Plum Blossom ran a few steps quickly, hugging her grandmother who spread her hands, and tears flowed from her eyes.

"Grandma, the big girl misses you too, and I've missed you day and night for the past seven years."

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back." Grandma Jane smiled tearfully.

Grandpa Jian said to Jian Muyou: "Go and call your parents back from the crop field, call your brother back who is working in the brick kiln, and if you can, let your brother take two days off." ”

The old man thinks that the return of his granddaughter must be a vacation given to her by the owner, and it is good to be able to give her two days off to go home for reunion, so how can she live at home for a long time?

He didn't have the luxury of expecting his granddaughter to reunite with them during the Spring Festival, after all, he was a servant in someone else's house, and he had to serve his master all the time.

"Well, okay, daughter-in-law, you and your eldest sister go into the house, kill a chicken to make a rich meal, and cook the bacon that you have at home."

Jian Mu was afraid that his new daughter-in-law would not understand, so he hurriedly ordered.

The new daughter-in-law also does kitchen work at home, but she still hasn't done chicken killing or anything like that, and her parents want her to learn how to cook before she gets married.

For two or three days after she got married, she worked in the kitchen, and the breakfast she made the next day after she got married.

"Mu Zai, go quickly, there are grandparents here."

Grandpa Jane thinks that he will do the chicken killing, how can he let the new daughter-in-law do this job?

However, the kitchen is in charge, and the granddaughter-in-law is still capable.

Jian Mu nodded a little and walked out of the yard quickly.

(End of chapter)