Early the next morning, at Gu's house, Liu Daquan was sleeping in the house, Liu Jindi, who had already gotten up, and her younger brother Liu Jinbao pushed the door into the house and stayed in front of the bed to watch his father sleep and snore.

Probably the two of them waited too long, Liu Jinbao was impatient, and blocked his father's nostrils, and after a while, Liu Daquan woke up, "Little Jinbao, what are you plugging my nostrils for?" Saying that, he hugged him and let him sit on him to play, Liu Jindi is a big girl, and it is not good to be so close to her father, so she sat at the head of the bed and said some homely words to him.

Gu Shi carried a big wooden basin into the house, and when he saw them pestering their father, he gave Liu Jinbao a slap when he went up, and said angrily: "What are you doing riding your father on the mountain, come down quickly and don't tire him." Then he counted Liu Jindi, "How long did he sleep before waking up your father?" ”

"Don't get in the way, I'm awake, what are you afraid of talking to them?" Liu Daquan cherished a pair of children and hurriedly protected the two of them, and Gu Shi glared at him with slanted eyes, "Then you wake up, just take off your dirty clothes, and I'll wash them off for you." ”

Running around outside, kneeling down to ask for money at every turn, it's strange that the clothes on the body can be clean, and just this dirty clothes, I don't know how much water I have to wash for a while to wash them clean.

"If we don't change this, I'm dirty, won't I get my clothes dirty if I change it?" Liu Daquan didn't want to bother about that, but Gu didn't care about this, patted his daughter's shoulder, and instructed: "Go, boil a big pot of bath water for your father, Jinbao, you also go to help, don't worry about this trouble." ”

Liu Jindi is now sensible, nodded and was about to go out to do things, and said to Gu halfway: "Mother, do you kill chickens today?" I'll go catch the chicken later, and the bacon on the beam, can I take it down and pan for salt? ”

"Oh, my family Jin Di is really big, I know how to honor your father." Liu Daquan sat up and praised his eldest daughter, Liu Jindi went out of the house beautifully, Gu took off his shoes and sat on the bed, lifted one foot of his foot to massage him, and chatted with him about trivial matters outside the house.

"On the way back, you stayed with someone for more than ten days?"

"Well, it's a mistake to take them this time, they don't know anything, and I have to take care of them all the way...... When I came back, Chongshan's daughter-in-law fell and shed blood, and there was no way but to find someone to borrow it, and then come home when she was better, otherwise how could I drag it until we went home? ”

"Ah, then she was too careless, a male or female baby?"

"Who knows, I didn't look around, and besides, what can I see in only three months? Hey, you don't know, when the man in Chongshan saw that his child was gone, he angrily scolded his daughter-in-law for not having the ability, not to say that this fetus asked someone if it was a son, and blamed his daughter-in-law for not being blessed, and he didn't have that life to catch his son, and he grunted all the way, and my ears were calloused. ”

"Alas, why is Chongshan like this, no matter how much you want your son, you can't bury your daughter-in-law like this?" Gu's fellow woman couldn't help but sympathize with Zhang's, and then said to his man: "If you want to say that people's lives are really unclear, you see that Chongshan can't look down on his few girls, but in the year he was away, the three girls did their own business, selling snails, ice powder, moon cakes and knitting sweaters, I don't know how much money they can make!" ”

Gu and Liu Daquan spilled a lot of flowers, Liu Daquan couldn't help smacking his tongue when he heard it, praising several daughters of his family for being angry, and finally remembered something, from the pocket of the clothes on his body, he took out two black mud eggs, handed them to her and said: "Yes, all the money earned last year is put here, you can take it and melt it, alas, if he didn't delay me, I could earn more." ”

Gu Shi knew that these two mud eggs were wrapped in a few pieces of broken silver, which were earned by his own man who put aside his family to ask for food, looking at this amount, it was estimated that it would be at most five taels of silver, Gu Shi grinned with a dimple face: "Do you know how many of our mothers were, how much money we earned last year?" ”

"You guys? What can you earn? It would be nice to have one or two hundred texts. Liu Daquan said that she was raising chickens and selling eggs at home, and she wouldn't take it seriously at all, although it was hard for him to ask for food outside, but with an income of five or six taels a year, who in the village would not be envious?

"One or two hundred texts? Look at what these are! Gu "snapped" and threw a bulging purse on the bed, Liu Daquan squinted his eyes and reached out, and fell down without care, just listening to the thumping sound, a large handful of copper coins and broken silver fell on the bed, "This is one, two, three...... Yo he, this has to be a little four, how do you earn it?

"What do you earn, Jin Di and I worked at home to earn it, didn't I tell you? A few girls in Longan stayed at home to do business, and we helped to do some work, which was saved little by little. Gu said with a smile, and then persuaded her man: "Daquan, this time you put it in front of Chongshan, don't count people and delay you to make money!" A few of us are staying at home to earn this money, don't we still rely on other people's daughters, you count others, and the relationship between the two families is stiff again......."

"You know, can I still count in my heart? Just say a few words at home. ”

"Yes, there is another thing, I have been thinking about it for a long time, Daquan, you must listen to me this time." Gu Shi was not busy collecting money and pretending to be money, but sat up straight and said to his man, "This time you came back so late, our mother and several people were worried about death, I thought that I could earn money at home in the future, so you don't want to go out and run, not to mention the danger outside, my family Jin Di is so big, not to mention that people will become old girls." ”

"As soon as you say that, that's right, Jin Di is 17 in a blink of an eye!" Liu Daquan looked into the distance and sighed for a while, "However, can you still make money this year?" If I can't earn it, I want to go out and have a look. ”

"Yes, why not? I think to sell ice powder in the summer, my family must go to help, sell moon cakes, and knit sweaters, which can be knitted all year round, and can be harvested there after weaving, and can be sold for money when it is cold at the end of the year. ”

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In the same morning, the Liu family's compound was even more busy, Liu Hongzao took his sisters to cook and feed the livestock, Liu Chongshan looked around in the yard, and the Zhang family also got up, but Liu Guiyuan didn't ask her to do things.

"The courtyard wall and the east house were all led by a few of you?" Although Liu Chongshan has asked twice, he still can't believe it, such a good yard and house, you have to pay one or twenty taels of silver, where did their little girl get the ability?

"Yes, we are all older, in addition to doing work in the field, as soon as we are free, we will get some food, drink and clothing, and sell them in the town, anyway, we can make a lot of money, and all the money we earned last year is here, and we don't have much cash in our hands." Liu Guiyuan panicked when he opened his mouth, in fact, they still had a large amount of silver in their hands, but the three sisters had already discussed it last night, and they couldn't hand over all the money to their parents.

Liu Chongshan paced in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, looking at the sturdy gray-white brick wall and the wide east house, not to mention how satisfied he was, and looked at the grass shed at the gate out of the corner of his eye, "More mules we bought, mules are not cheap, will you buy them?" ”

As soon as Liu Chongshan saw the mule, he couldn't take his eyes off, his family dreamed of having a livestock that could work in the field, so he hurriedly stepped forward and reached out to touch it, Liu Guiyuan pulled a handful of peanut seedlings, handed them to the mule's mouth, and said, "Why won't you buy it?" The Chinese people we are looking for are picked, such a mule, more than seven taels, and a supporting mule cart, drive Ming'er to the town to sit, the sun can't get drenched, how comfortable. ”

"Alas, what are you doing with a top, can you use it to harvest the Mylar crops?" Liu Chongshan looked at her dissatisfied, Liu Guiyuan pursed his lips, and said indifferently: "If you want to think of a diesel car, you can buy another one when the time comes, and it doesn't cost much." ”

"You girl, when the money in the family ......" Liu Chongshan habitually wanted to scold her, thinking of the money in their hands, "Then last year, how much money did you earn, and how much money do we have left?" ”

"Dad, I earned a hundred taels last year, and we still have less than twenty taels left." Liu Huahua got up from the stove, clapped her hands in front of her father, and said softly: "Look at how many of me, just rush to make money, which of my cousins is like us?" ”

"Yes, what the second sister said is right, if you want me to see, don't talk about our cousins, that is, the whole village, adults and children, which one of you can earn enough to earn one hundred taels a year?" Liu Guiyuan raised her eyebrows and looked at her second sister with a smile.

"Okay, okay, look at a few of you to make some money, one by one arrogant can't." Liu Chongshan was happy in his heart, his eyes looked at them much softer at this time, and even his voice was much gentler, but he turned his head to see Zhang's family, and was a little worried, "Alas, what can I do if I can make money again, our family still doesn't have a son to support the door, look at your mother, it's like having a plague." ”

As soon as she said this, Zhang's face was full of sadness, she felt that she was pregnant with a kid this time, but her body was not angry, what should she do if she didn't catch it!

"Dad, mother, come over for dinner." Liu Hongzao shouted, took a large basin of hand-rolled noodles, Liu Huahua followed over to take the bowl and chopsticks, Liu Guiyuan asked her eldest sister, "Are there many eggs?" ”

"There are only three left, and they were all poached eggs just now."

"Okay, I'll go to the fourth grandmother's house to ask after a while, take a dozen or so to cook for my mother and lotus seeds to eat, there is sugar and everything at home, this time I will get some good ones for my mother." Liu Guiyuan thought that Zhang's body was weak, and he had to arrange food well despite being out of confinement.

After breakfast, Liu Chongshan wiped his mouth and asked them if they had burned paper for their grandfather's grave on October 1, and Liu Hongzao said, "The second uncle helped our family burn it, and we didn't go." ”

October 1 is the local Halloween Festival, which burns paper money for the ancestors, but only men and married women can go, and female dolls like them, and younger male dolls, do not have to go in person.

Liu Chongshan nodded, didn't say anything, slowly stood up, opened the west gate and went out, Liu Huahua asked her mother where Zhang's father went, and Zhang said: "You should go to your second uncle's house, go there to talk, and buy some paper money to take a look at the grave." ”

As soon as Liu Chongshan left, the atmosphere at home was much better, and Liu Hongzao lowered his head and asked Zhang, "Mother, where are you uncomfortable?" I see you look weird. ”

"I'm fine, alas, it's just that the child has been lost, and I feel uncomfortable, I feel that this baby is a child, but it's ...... Alas! ”

Zhang's appearance, Liu Guiyuan was very annoyed, took her hand and said: "Mother, don't take your body seriously, you see that you are wearing so much, and there is no heat on your body and hands, you want me to say, take a mule cart to the town to have a look, and come back to eat some medicine." ”

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