Chapter 7: I want the two families to go together
"Yo, Yan'er is back from shopping, but she is really capable."
Seeing Hua Yan come in, He immediately showed a smile.
A pair of slender triangular eyes narrowed, although they were laughing, they could probably smell the calculating smell of the other party from a distance of ten meters.
"Yan'er, are you tired?" Hua Qingshan hurriedly stepped forward to take the things in Hua Yan's hand, blaming him, he didn't expect Yan'er to come back so quickly, and he didn't pick it up.
"Dad, I'm not tired." Hua Yan shook her head, took the water handed to her by Xia Shi and took two sips.
"Hmph, but take such a little thing, look at the worried look of your husband and wife, I don't know what kind of precious lady you think it is."
It was Hua Yan's grandmother who spoke.
Mrs. Hua's husband died early, and she was very capable from a young age, and although she is now old, she still retains her temperament.
Hua Qingshan respects Mrs. Hua very much on weekdays, but she is partial to her eldest son Hua Dashan, and she is dissatisfied that Hua Qingshan married the Xia family, and when the family was separated, almost all the belongings were given to Hua Dashan's family on the grounds that she wanted to live with her eldest son.
Seeing Hua Yan looking at herself, Mrs. Hua frowned, and snorted coldly, and every wrinkle on her face seemed to be serious.
"Dead girl, no one will shout?"
"Grandmother." Hua Yan opened her mouth lukewarmly.
From childhood to adulthood, Hua Yan and Hua Jing sisters and brothers are very afraid of this grandmother, and when they see each other on weekdays, it is like a mouse seeing a cat.
However, for the current Huayan, the other party naturally has nothing to fear.
"Grandmother and uncle, are you here today, is there something wrong?"
"Naturally, there is something, and it's a great thing!" He Shi spoke first, raised his chin and looked at Hua Yan and said, "Although the family is separated, but this time to escape the famine, our family can go with you." Huayan, you can also persuade your father and mother, our family is doing good things for the sake of brothers, what else is there to consider. ”
Walking together?
Hua Yan looked at the He family's appearance of giving to you, and couldn't help laughing.
"If the uncle and the aunt really want to do good deeds, then divide some of your family's food, and as for going together, they still don't need to."
He's abacus is really loud enough, on this road to escape, in addition to food, the most important thing is safety.
Hua Qingshan's physical strength naturally goes without saying, but her uncle, I heard that since she was a child, she was lazy and lazy, and her body was not very good. Although Hua Dabao has a body of meat, he is even more of a false shelf.
Along the way, it takes a lot of effort just to push the belongings, not to mention hunting, finding food, and preventing others from stealing things.
What brotherly love is fake, I'm afraid that I want to find a free thug and coolie is real.
He's face turned ugly all of a sudden, and he wanted to give food himself? There are no doors!
And Mrs. Hua was already very dissatisfied with her second son's hesitation, and now she was even more annoyed when she saw Hua Yan's attitude.
"Second brother, when will it be your family's turn to be a girl, and today I am here to inform you, not to discuss."
"Mother, you can't say that, Yan'er is also older, of course she can give advice on things in the family. As for walking together...... Think again. Hua Qingshan retorted rarely.
In fact, it's not that he can't see the purpose of the two families going together.
If it is put in normal times, he will suffer some losses. But Yueshu had already told him last night that the sister-in-law took advantage of her absence to wronged Yan'er, if it weren't for Yan'er's cleverness, this dirty water would have been poured on her head.
"It's against you!" Mrs. Hua slapped on the wooden table on the side, although she was thin, but her spirit was good, and her strength was still full, so the table staggered, "Although you have split up, but I am not dead, and we are also going together to help each other, why, you are married to a daughter-in-law, you have a small family, and you don't even want your own mother?" ”
As she spoke, Mrs. Hua looked at Xia again with her unkind gaze.
Xia's heart tightened when she saw this look, her mother-in-law didn't like herself, she knew this from the moment she entered the door.
But no matter what, I also married into the Hua family, and at least this mother-in-law also helped hide her identity......
Thinking of this, Xia sighed helplessly in his heart and turned his head to look at Hua Qingshan.
"Qingshan, or ...... Let's go together. ”
She understands her husband, so he is really ruthless and completely draws a line with the eldest brother's family, and he can't do it, let alone his own mother.
Hua Qingshan was already in a dilemma, but now, Xia Shi was relieved first, and he finally responded.
At the same time, I secretly told myself in my heart that I must pay attention to not let my wife and children be wronged along the way.
Hua Yan looked at Hua Qingshan and the Xia family, knowing that their personalities were like this, and it was not a day's work to want them to be completely ruthless.
So she didn't interject to say anything more, anyway, on the next road, there will definitely be no less chance for them to figure it out thoroughly, and it's not impossible to take their time.
Seeing that the matter of setting off together was settled, Hua Dashan, who was silent throughout the whole process, laughed awkwardly twice and said a few words about the scene of brothers working together.
After all, there is an old lady who favors him on weekdays, but she is the same, plus a pungent daughter-in-law, he really hasn't developed any character to be the master of the house.
And when He Shi saw that the matter was decided, he no longer put on a flattering smile, and looked at the two cloth bags placed aside, and the ridicule on his face was suddenly revealed.
"Second brother, didn't I say that this journey was not easy, and your family planned to live on these two small bags of brown rice? Early this morning, I spent five taels of silver to buy two large bags of rice. Along the way, how can you live without our family? ”
"This doesn't have to worry about my sister-in-law, no matter how much white rice my sister-in-law's family has, I'm afraid it won't eat in my family's stomach." Hua Qingshan frowned and spoke.
Hua Yan looked at this situation, and her heart was like a mirror.
Although Hua Qingshan is capable and the Xia family is virtuous, when the family was separated, the idea of the Hua family, as well as the private money of Mrs. Hua, including the Hua family's house, were all given to Hua Dashan.
Hua Qingshan has nothing but this small broken yard, and he has to contribute some money and grain to support Mrs. Hua every year, in this case, no matter how capable they are, most of their family eats brown rice all year round, and the He family, while taking advantage of them, also laughs at them for being shabby.
But......
Hua Yan's eyes rolled, and she deliberately said to Xia: "Mother, I want to eat noodles, let's cook noodles tonight." ”
"This ......" Xia Shi was suddenly embarrassed, "Yan'er, but there is no flour in the house." ”
"Who said no, I bought it." Hua Yan pointed to the cloth bag on the table.
Xia and Hua Qingshan were stunned for a moment, and He stepped forward directly, opened it to take a look, and found that it was indeed white rice and flour.
"Hmph, I'm really rich enough, I pretend to be poor on weekdays, and now I still buy white rice and flour."
When Xia and Hua Qingshan saw the rice noodles, the two of them glanced at each other, obviously a little worried.
They didn't expect that Huayan actually bought white rice, and the price of brown rice was only half of that of white rice.
But in their hearts, no one blamed Hua Yan, but blamed themselves for not telling in advance.
And Hua Yan glanced at the old lady Hua on the side and deliberately spoke.
"I only had three taels of silver, so I just watched and bought it. In addition to this rice and noodles, there were two bags of brown rice, and a kind uncle helped me move out of the village, but I couldn't get it back, so I found a place to hide it first. Dad, mother, let's go get it back later. ”
Hearing this, everyone was stunned, and as expected, it was Mrs. Hua who spoke first.
"Are you saying that these rice noodles only cost three taels of silver to add two bags of brown rice?"