The Wang family led Wang Feisan back, Liu Chonghe and Liu Chonglin patted their buttocks and prepared to go home, Liu Guiyuan sincerely thanked the second and third uncles for their help, no matter what, a family is a family, breaking bones and connecting tendons, or relatives are in charge of you at critical moments.

"Okay, you lock the door, I'll go back if it's okay." Liu Chonglin didn't care about it, and went home with his head stuffed after speaking.

"Longan, we don't have a pigsty, where do you put this little pig?" Liu Huahua stood at the mouth of the fence and drove them away with a stick, but fortunately it was night, and the piglets couldn't see the light and didn't run around much.

Liu Guiyuan looked at her third uncle Liu Chonghe, the third aunt felt faceless, and did not come to this end at all, the third uncle waved his hand and said: "Don't look at me, our pigsty is small, you can't put it down, you can figure it out by yourself." Liu Chonghe was actually afraid that the piglet would be put in his pigsty, and his daughter-in-law Lin Xiuzhen saw that she had to get angry, so she could only panic and pat her ass and go home.

"It's okay, the hall is cleaned up, the little pig is put in the house first, and then loosened out tomorrow morning, there is no pigsty, let's pick up some broken stones and build one first."

Liu Guiyuan gave orders, Liu Huahua drove the pig behind, Liu Hongzao went to the hall with a torch to clean up things, and was busy for half an hour, placing the messy tables and chairs, and the piglet was tied with a rope and fixed on the table legs.

Early the next morning, Liu Guiyuan took lotus seeds to watch the pigs at home, Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua didn't do anything, so they went to Liu Jindi's house to borrow an ox cart, and pulled it to the back mountain ten miles away from here to transport stones, and pulled back two carts a day, and finally built a pigsty that looked rough from the outside in the evening. Anyway, the pigs have a place to live.

Since then, Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua have concentrated on collecting pigweed to feed their pigs, and the third uncle and aunt do not plan to send pigweed. For this Liu red jujube, she also specially carried a basket of pigweed, sent it to the third uncle's house, and greeted his third uncle, saying that she would not send pigweed in the future, and her family would not want the two catties of pork after the New Year.

Coming back from the third uncle, Liu Hongzao brought back a good news, it turned out that I heard the third uncle say that Wang Feisan in Sangyu Village couldn't get out in a short time, because he not only lost someone in Huashi Village once, but after returning to Sangyu Village, the man he looked outside the village and went back to him, and the two of them were in Wang's house for a while, and the whole Sangyu Village knew about it, and the Wang family had no face, and completely locked Wang Feisan in confinement, and sent a meal every day. Looking at that posture, there hasn't been a year or two, Wang Feisan didn't want to come out of the door of the Wang family.

"Let's go, let's go to East Lake and plant the remaining wheat stubble."

When Liu Chongshan and Zhang's left, they only had time to plant two wheat stubble fields in Beihu, and the smaller one in East Lake was not planted.

In addition to these three plots of land, Liu Chongshan's family still has more than half of the land in Beihu, planting seven or eight rows of peanuts, and half of the land in Nanhu, because it is sandy soil, planting half an acre of watermelon, hoping to have a good harvest. After a full calculation, it is really difficult for this family of five or six people to live on only four pieces of land, and it can only be said that Liu Yao's family is too eccentric.

Liu Guiyuan just put the lotus seeds to sleep, and now he is free, carrying a basket and planning to go to Huashi River to fish for snails.

"Hey, don't you think that's a dog? What is he doing there, don't you get into a fight? ”

Liu Huahua pointed to the villagers gathered in twos and threes under the old willow tree not far away, among which the dog baby was gesturing with an elderly mother-in-law, and her mouth was still barking, which did look like a quarrel at first glance.

"Let's go, let's go and see, Brother Dog Baby is not good at talking, don't suffer a loss." Liu Hongzao greeted, the two sisters nodded and followed, the dog baby is the grandson of the fourth grandmother, the fourth grandmother has been kind to her family many times, and the two families are neighbors, so they have to go over to see.

When I got closer, I saw that it was an unknown mother-in-law who was arguing with the dog baby, but next to the mother-in-law stood Xu Jiagui's daughter-in-law Hua Shi (Hua Xiumei), and there were more than a dozen little girls standing behind Hua, some knew and some didn't, including Xu Shanmei who wiped her tears.

"No...... Don't go ...... Good...... Good Sister...... Don't go ......" The dog baby pointed to the little girl who was crying the most on the opposite side, and stopped the mother-in-law in front of her with one hand to prevent her from leaving, the more anxious she was, the more speechless she was, and her head was full of beads of sweat.

"I can't tell you a little stammer, his father and mother have said it, the little girl was sent to Yang Mansion on an errand and that was her creation, what do you care about as an outsider?" The old mother-in-law was extremely impatient, and seeing that she had been blocking the way for her to pass, she glanced at the man behind her, and the man rolled up his sleeves and was about to make a move.

"Hey, what are you doing, do you still want to hit someone?"

Liu Hongzao hurriedly stopped it, and Liu Huahua stepped forward to pull the dog baby brother back, who knew that the dog baby seemed to be stubborn, and no one paid attention to it at the moment, so he had to stop the group of people in front of him and not let him go.

"Brother Dog, don't make trouble, let me go, I deserve my hard life, I am not blessed to be your daughter-in-law, and I will ...... in the future Take care of yourself in the future. Xu Shanmei wiped her tears and looked at the dog baby, her eyes revealing reluctance.

"Dog, dog, I'm looking for you everywhere, what are you doing here?" The voice of the fourth grandmother came from behind, Liu Guiyuan turned his head to see that the fourth grandmother was running here with her little feet, and she didn't have time to take the crutches, she hurriedly stepped forward to help.

"What's going on, why didn't Brother Dog let that woman go? No, she was going to be taken away by someone, and Brother Dog didn't want to go over to stop someone, right? ”

Liu Guiyuan thought for a while, and probably guessed the truth, and the fourth grandmother who heard this glanced at the stubborn dog baby, sighed slightly, and told the truth of the matter. It turned out that the dog baby and Xu Shanmei had a small order of baby kiss, at that time the dog baby father was still there, Xu Shanmei's father and mother lived next door to their house, the two families got along well, often went out to work together, Xu Shanmei's mother saw that the three-year-old puppy baby grew strong, so she ordered a baby kiss for her newborn daughter.

One summer, there were several heavy rains in a row, and there were signs of collapse on several slopes in the west, and the Liu family and the Xu family didn't take it seriously and still went to work in the fields. Later, the villagers came to dig up the soil to save people, and finally dug out four adults, but two of them died, and those two were the mother of the dog baby father and Xu Shanmei.

After a few years, the daughter-in-law of the Liu family remarried, and the man of the Xu family remarried, and the two families were not as close as before with the passage of time, but the two little dolls were playing very well, and when the two grew up to be in their teens, the two young men and women who were childhood sweethearts gradually developed feelings for each other. It's a pity, the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes, Xu Shanmei's stepmother Jin, since she married into the door and gave birth to two sons, she is not used to the original daughter, and often asks her to work, just this time the Xu family's expensive woman Hua is looking for a little girl in the village to go to the nobleman's house on an errand, she blew a few pillow winds on Xu Shanmei's father, Xu Shanmei was taken away by the Hua family.

As for the so-called baby parent, the Xu family has long since rejected it, on the grounds that the dog baby is a stammering and is not worthy of her good sister.

"Xu Shanmei is 13 years old this year, isn't she not age-in-class?"

Liu Huaanhua asked on the side, she was very clear about this matter, her father said that Yang Mansion only recruited 8-12-year-old girls, and she hesitated for a long time between her and Guiyuan.

"It is estimated that I reported my age down, you see that Xu Shanmei looks thin and small, not as tall as you, and some people believe it when she says that she is eleven or twelve years old."

Liu Hongzao revealed the truth in one sentence, Xu Shanmei's father and mother did what she said to Hua's family, originally, recruiting a little girl in the house is to do chores, and it is okay to be older or younger, plus Xu Shanmei's father and Hua's man Xu Jiagui are both big heads, so there is no need to worry about this little thing.

Hua Shi saw that the fourth grandmother came to find the dog baby, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and said to the fourth grandmother: "Aunt Chen, you see, I am doing things for my aunt, and today I sent these little girls into the house. ”

The fourth grandmother glanced at her, ignored her, but walked to the dog baby and dragged the dog to the side of the road, and then said to Hua Shi and the others expressionlessly: "Let's go, no one will stop you." When the Hua family and the others walked away, the fourth grandmother spat on their backs and spitted: "A group of guys who drill money eyes, aren't you afraid that someone will poke your backbone?" ”

The Yang family has a big business, and the house has several wives and concubines, and every few years they have to recruit some newcomers into the house. No, this time they not only found more than a dozen little girls in other villages, but also recruited three good ones in their village, namely Tian Miaomiao of the Tian family, Liu Xiaoqing of the Liu family, and the remaining one is Xu Shanmei of the Xu family.

Tian Miaomiao and Liu Guiyuan of the Tian family didn't know her, but she heard that this Tian Miaomiao's family was not short of money, and this time she entered the mansion as if she was going for a good future, no wonder she looked at her leisurely face just now. As for Liu Xiaoqing, Liu Guiyuan is more familiar with her, because she is Liu Xiaobian's eldest daughter, who is 14 years old this year, only one year younger than her eldest sister Liu Hongjuo. She remembered that when there was a conflict between her family and Liu Xiaobian's family, that Liu Xiaoqing had been squatting on the ground and working, and she didn't dare to look at this side at all.

Among that group of little girls, there are beautiful faces, and there are also slender ones, it seems that the little girl Hua Pozi and Hua Shi are looking for this time are not ordinary little girls, and it is very likely that they will choose some big girls or bed warmers or something from them. Thinking of this, Liu Guiyuan only felt goosebumps all over her body, fortunately, she didn't go to the Yang Mansion at that time, not that she looked beautiful, the Yang Mansion would definitely be able to look at her, but in the kind of place where she needed to flatter and please others all day long, she would definitely not be able to get along.

Thinking of this, Liu Guiyuan raised his head and asked Brother Gouwa: "Brother Dogwa, Sister Xu Shanmei is a living deed or a dead deed, do you know?" ”

The living contract is a short-term employment relationship, and you can go home as soon as the time comes, and if you have a good relationship with the master, you can also redeem yourself in advance. The death contract is equivalent to the deed of sale, and in the future, it will be the relationship between the master and the servant, and it is difficult to control life and death.

The dog baby had a disgraced look, and she didn't pop out a word for a long time, but the fourth grandmother spoke, and said with some regret: "I asked the good sister and her father, and said that it was a signed death deed, and twenty taels of silver were bought out." ”

"Sold my daughter for twenty taels of silver?" Liu Guiyuan couldn't help smacking his tongue after hearing this, according to the price of twenty taels of silver at this time, he could manage a family of five like Liu Chongshan to live for a year, of course, the premise is that their family does not farm or weave, and all expenses come from twenty taels of silver.

Now that the wheat harvest has just passed, every household is not short of rice grain, Liu Guiyuan has not heard of any difficulties encountered by Xu Shanmei's family, in this case, her father actually sold his own daughter ruthlessly, just for twenty taels of silver, her father's heart is really ruthless, harder than Liu Chongshan's heart.

The fourth grandmother took the dog baby away, and the three sisters of the Liu family stood in place for a while, and after a few words of emotion, they were busy with their own work. Xu Shanmei's experience is pitiful, but the lives of the three of them still have to go on.