Yesterday, after most of the day's journey, the three sisters fell asleep almost as soon as they got on the pillow, and they didn't say anything about the night, and no one got up after crying for a long time, and the grandmother took her out to pee.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the three sisters woke up from the bed one after another, Liu Hongjube saw the lotus seed sleeping on the bamboo couch of her grandmother, and hurriedly touched her buttocks, and found that it was not wet.

"Grandma hugged her last night, and she said she was afraid that we would press it." Liu Huaanhua rubbed his sleepy eyes and yawned.

"Well, I'm tired, okay, get up."

Liu Guiyuan hasn't slept so well for a long time, when he used to sell ice powder at home, he got up every day, carried water, cooked, fed pigs, and was busy making ice powder while also taking care of lotus seeds, but now he suddenly arrived at his grandmother's house, and their sisters became children again, without the previous self-discipline at all.

"It's all up, there's hot porridge in the pot, and there are dried salted radishes on the table, get up quickly and eat some."

Grandma Luo heard movement in the back room and walked in with a smile. The three sisters nodded, and quickly washed and ate. During the meal, Liu Guiyuan saw that there was no movement at home, so he asked Grandma Luo: "What about my uncle's family?" ”

"Your uncle went to the bamboo garden to dig old bamboo roots, early in the morning, your eldest aunt went to your second uncle's house, and your eldest cousin went to herd cattle for you."

Yesterday they only cared about talking to Grandma Luo, and the ox and ox cart were left at the door, and then the uncle and the eldest cousin saw it, so they led the cow to the bottom of the bamboo shed to feed the water and grass.

"By the way, grandma, I haven't been to my second uncle's house yet, can we go to my second uncle's house to play?"

"Yes, why not? I thought that after you had eaten, I would take you over to play, and your aunt's house, she married in the next village, which is very close to here. ”

The three sisters quickly finished breakfast after hearing this, and Grandma Luo hugged the lotus seeds and took their sisters to the second son Zhang Chengliang's house.

The second uncle's house is not far from the eldest uncle's house, walk along the bamboo bridge to the east, about less than a kilometer, you can see the second uncle's house around the vegetable garden, in contrast, the second uncle's house is small, but it is very new, like a new build in recent years.

A half-brick house, an adobe house, a kitchen made of straw huts in the middle, and a half-person-high courtyard wall around the outside, although it is made of adobe, it looks very good.

Liu Guiyuan remembered that the second uncle's family also had three children, the eldest daughter Zhang Yulan was 18 years old and just got married two years ago, the second son Zhang Jiqing was 15 years old, nicknamed Niu Er, and the third daughter Zhang Yulian was 11 years old.

In fact, Zhang's gave birth to four girls in a row There are traces to follow, her eldest brother's family and the second brother's firstborn are daughters, and there are many daughters and few sons, she and Liu Chongshan are more likely to have daughters naturally after combining, but Zhang's luck is not good, not a single boy was born, which often suffers from the complaints of her mother-in-law Liu Yao and her husband Liu Chongshan.

When I arrived at the second uncle's house, the courtyard door was open, and Grandma Luo led the three girls into the courtyard, and was about to open her mouth to call someone, when she heard the sound of talking in the house.

"His second aunt, my family Tiezhu is about to discuss marriage, and I have been a little tight recently, I want to ask you to borrow ten taels of silver to make an envoy, and I can pay you back in a year or two at most, do you think it?"

"Sister-in-law, my family's Niu Er is also going to discuss marriage recently, and I really can't make up the money for a while, you have to wait for the money to be used, or I will go to my mother's house in two days to ask?"

Liu Guiyuan looked embarrassed, when she first came, she heard her eldest aunt ask her second aunt to borrow money, how embarrassing it was, she hurriedly said loudly: "Grandma, is this the second uncle's house?" ”

There was silence in the courtyard for a while, and then the door of the hall opened, and the eldest uncle's mother Fang and the younger woman walked out together, Liu Guiyuan knew that this was the second uncle's daughter-in-law Chen, and hurriedly called sweetly, and the eldest sister and the second sister shouted at the same time.

"These are the three daughters of my sister-in-law's family, I haven't seen them for a few years, they have all grown so big, if I walk outside, I don't dare to recognize them." The second aunt Chen (Chen Jiao'e) glanced at the three nieces one by one, then nodded and said with a smile: "Unfortunately, your second uncle is not at home working in the field, and your eldest cousin Niu Er doesn't know where to play. ”

Liu Guiyuan followed his second aunt Chen into the West House, and his little cousin Zhang Yulian was sitting on the bed embroidering, and when she saw the three cousins coming, she had a shy smile on her face, and hurriedly got out of bed to talk to them.

"Big cousin, second cousin, where did you buy the earrings on your ears? It's so pretty! Zhang Yulian had already seen the earrings flashing on the ears of the two, and praised them sincerely.

"This is my third sister bought it in Qinghe Town, my eldest sister and I are a couple, the third sister said this is called opal, you see, at first glance this is not like a cat's eye will shine?"

Liu Huahua proudly touched the earrings, seeing that Zhang Yulian was envious, Liu Hongzao saw that her eyes were straight, so she took off her earrings and said, "You like it so much, do you want to borrow it for a while?" ”

Between sisters, it's not a big deal to swap earrings for each other, as is often the case with her and Peanut.

Zhang Yulian was a little embarrassed, she took off a pair of copper cloves on her ears, handed them to Liu Hongjube and said, "Then you wear mine first, and I will return it to you when you go back." ”

Zhang Yulian put on the earrings, took a picture of the bronze mirror and was very satisfied, and when she saw Cousin Guiyuan standing on the side, she was a little bored, so she went to the bamboo box next to the bed and took out a handful of salt soybeans, handed it to her and said: "Cousin Guiyuan, do you eat soybeans, eldest cousin, second cousin, you also eat, I will go to the hall house to pour some water." ”

The three sisters and Zhang Yulian talked for a while, and when Grandma Luo came to call someone back, the four little sisters were a little inseparable.

"Look at my family Yulian, how close she is to their cousins." The second aunt, Chen, said with a smile and said to the three sisters who were about to walk out of the yard: "Then you slow down on the road, I won't leave you to eat." ”

The three sisters walked behind Grandma Luo, the eldest aunt Fang didn't leave just now, she chatted with the concubine Chen for a while, but in the end she didn't even borrow a tael of silver, at this time there was no smile on her face, and when she finally got home, she didn't wait for the three sisters to go farther, and began to complain about Grandma Luo:

"At the beginning, my mother shouldn't have persuaded Chengdong to take his younger brother into the gang, and when he saw that my family was defeated, he assigned his mother-in-law to come over and return the money that night.

"It's all about Chen Sesame and rotten grain, what are you doing with it? You went to the second child's house to borrow money just now, but she was angry with you? ”

Grandma Luo knew that the second son was not doing this authentically, but the palms and backs of her hands were full of meat, and now she didn't want to mix it in it, so she could only think of diverting the attention of her eldest daughter-in-law, Fang.

"How could she be angry with me? Her mouth is used to saying beautiful things, even if she embarrass me again, she has to smile three points, making people feel like a punch on cotton wool, which is useless. ”

The Fang family said this, but those who were interested could hear it as soon as they heard it, she must have suffered from the Chen family's idleness.

Grandma Luo lowered her head and pondered for a while, before she said: "Alas, if I ask Xiangqiao in two days, her husband is still good at talking, and she can always borrow three or five taels, you go to your two daughters' house to ask, see if you can make it up, remember to ask quietly, don't let the in-laws know." ”

"Mother, I know all this, I don't need your orders, we will definitely be able to borrow money, I'm worried about how to pay it back, I think it's better to sell the land in the bamboo garden, I remember that there are more than ten acres of land, as long as someone buys it, I will sell it for ..... amount of money."

The eldest uncle's mother, Fang, did what she said, and when it was close to noon, the eldest uncle Zhang Chengdong came back from outside, and before he had time to drink saliva, Fang's said that he planned to sell the bamboo garden.

"That bamboo garden is my heart's work, and I will rely on it to rise again one day."

Uncle Zhang Chengdong was very reluctant in his heart, this bamboo garden cost him a lot of money at the beginning, first hoarded ten and a half acres of vacant land, and then transplanted it from the village

Small bamboo seedlings, planted in the middle of the bamboo seedlings found that the bamboo seedlings are not enough, he spent money to buy a batch from outside, and finally after three years into timber, just made some money to make up for the shortfall, but the bamboo garden has aged.....

"Then what do you say, I have no way at all, but if I have any other way, do I want to sell it?"

The family has been working on the bamboo garden for so many years, and she will feel reluctant to sell it, but for the sake of her son's marriage, sell it!

"That's okay, you can sell it, but you have to give me some time, wait for me to dig out the old bamboo roots, and then cut down some usable bamboo poles, and then you can sell them."

Uncle Zhang Chengdong thought that this bamboo garden was going to be abandoned anyway, so it was better to dig out the valuable old bamboo roots, leave them at home and wait for them to be carved after smoking, and sell all the other bamboo poles that could be used.

At this time, Liu Guiyuan, who was eavesdropping on the wall of the inner room with the second sister, heard that the eldest uncle and the eldest aunt were going to sell the bamboo garden, and finally couldn't help it, she pursed her lips, walked to Zhang Chengdong in a few steps, and said: "Uncle, don't sell your bamboo garden, I have a simple way to make the bamboo garden wither and spring together!" ”

This kind of bamboo garden is generally no one will buy, even if someone buys it is used as another way, the meaning of the uncle's words is to clean up the bamboo garden into flat land, so that a good bamboo garden can become ten acres of bare land, isn't this a waste of things?

Zhang Chengdong looked at his niece with a serious face and said, "Guiyuan, you can't talk nonsense, I have tried many methods, but they didn't work, what good way can you have?" Probably realizing that he was too serious and worried about scaring his niece, he quickly changed his tone and comforted Liu Guiyuan: "Uncle knows that you have a good heart, and I don't want to see my uncle sad, don't worry, I took the time to go to the wood carving shop in the town in the morning, and saw a lot of bamboo carving ornaments, which are very valuable, rest assured, this time our old bamboo roots are enough to make a fortune!" ”

Liu Guiyuan shook his head and said seriously: "Uncle, I'm not joking, I really know how to make the withered bamboo spring, and the things used in this method are available near our house, and I don't need to spend a penny." ”

"Do you really have a way? Let's talk about it. Uncle Zhang Chengdong didn't believe his niece's words, he just said this to perfunctory her.

"River mud! Uncle, there are two rivers outside your house, and the bottom of the river is full of silt, this thing can be dug up without spending a penny, as long as you have it, the bamboo will not bloom again, and the original old bamboo will grow new shoots! ”

The reason why Liu Guiyuan knew this method was that she saw it in a folklore book, when she was particularly interested in folklore, and went to the library to check many examples, among which there are rumors that bamboo blooms ominously or is about to lose, which is actually a rumor, bamboo blooms because its roots have been in the ground for a long time, and gradually intertwined in the ground, and finally cause it to be separated from the aging soil.

At this time, you can dig up a part of the old bamboo roots in the bamboo garden, and then fill the original bamboo roots with river mud and new soil, or it will not be long before the whole bamboo forest can slowly sprout new shoots.

This method is so simple that she still remembers it clearly, which is exactly what she said: crossing is not terrible, but I am afraid that there is no culture in crossing!

Knowledge is power!