After Shui Qing's explosive performance, the Zhou family easily didn't dare to go over to provoke the Wednesday family, just wanted to find someone to help carry down the things, and they weighed it back and forth for a long time before they dared to carefully find someone to help.

"Third child, you can't take care of your mother-in-law? A big man's family is ridden on his head all day long, and he scolds you at every turn, and it doesn't matter if you are a man or not, why are you like this? The boss of the Zhou family hated iron and couldn't make steel, and looked at his younger brother and scolded.

Zhou Xingping didn't say anything with a wooden face, whatever his eldest brother said.

"Okay, you can't blame the third child, the main thing is that his mother-in-law is so fierce, you see the second brother and sister last time, I couldn't get up from the bed for half a month, no wonder Wang Changxing didn't want her, she deserved it! Such a mother-in-law shouldn't want her, and the third child still can't resist her......"

"Does the third brother still have the heart to talk here? There are still six or seven days before the yamen will come to collect taxes, and you are now also the one who has been divided out by your father, are you ready for taxes? ”

Zhou Xingping looked at his little sister and said in a low voice, "I don't have any money to give." ”

"Don't have any money to give? I see that the third sister-in-law took her two children out to fish before dawn, and everyone is a man who supports the family. ”

"How do you talk to your third brother's lotus? Which woman in our village doesn't fish? Sister-in-law Zhou glared at her sister-in-law and scolded her sister-in-law.

"I don't think my sister-in-law has ever fished......"

"The eldest brother and sister-in-law all said that she was not good, it was better for me to send her away, I would simply take the child to the eldest brother's side to live together, and the province couldn't raise his head every day to be a man," Zhou Xingping looked at his eldest brother and said with anticipation.

Lianhua suddenly stopped sneering and looked at her eldest brother, "I think the eldest brother and sister-in-law blame the third brother, this is a good idea!" They are always worried that the third brother will not eat well and sleep well, and the father and mother who live together will worry about you for three days. ”

"The dead girl is no big or small, when will it be your turn to intervene in the affairs of the family? Don't those two live like this? Is it true to say two angry words and complain? Zhou Xingjun glanced at his little sister fiercely.

"Didn't my sister-in-law say it was better to take a break just now? This third brother agreed to the idea and you said that you were joking, what, the third brother is a person who likes to joke? ”

"Lotus, sister-in-law just said a few words casually......"

"Casually? I'm afraid that the third sister-in-law will take it seriously! The third sister-in-law will really leave when the time comes, I see that it is good for the third brother to live here with the child, there is nothing in his house that the third brother has purchased, and there is no one to live in," Lotus looked at her sister with indescribable mockery.

Lianhui's face was also unhappy, "I'll just say a few words, don't carry a gun and a stick......"

"You go to the third sister-in-law and say whatever you want! I don't go around to see what virtues I have, and I still stretch out my hand to be the third brother's home! The first three sisters-in-law were all killed by you, and this one is still coming? ”

"I'll go to the dead house, I'll have nothing to do and quarrel, right?" Mother Zhou took the shuttle and roared over.

"What are you doing here, third? Your daughter-in-law is busy fishing when she goes out early in the morning without drying clothes, and you are gossiping after eating? ”

"The eldest brother asked me to come over to help, and by the way, let me take a break from the water and live with them......"

"Why did you tell your mother like this? When did we let you take a break from the rest of the world? My family only has three houses, where do you come to live? Sister-in-law Zhou immediately retorted.

"Don't give the third brother a place to live, and let the third brother send people away?" Lotus peeked out of the house and stabbed her with a head.

Mother Zhou looked at the eldest daughter-in-law for a long time, "If the third daughter-in-law leaves, you will wait to be sent away by me, are you still standing here?" Why don't you die and go home to work? ”

Zhou Xingping lowered his head and limped back.

"Mother, we really didn't instigate the third child," Sister-in-law Zhou hurriedly explained as she looked at her mother-in-law's gloomy and dripping face.

"You'd better stop messing with the third daughter-in-law, the second daughter-in-law hasn't been good so far, you scratch her today and scratch her tomorrow, if the third one really takes her to kill you, don't cry when the time comes," Zhou's mother said sharply and entered the house without taking care of the eldest couple.

"The third child is an unlucky leader! You don't want the third child to come over in the future," Boss Zhou said impatiently to Sister-in-law Zhou.

"Who let you get involved in the affairs of your brother and sister-in-law's house?" Zhou's mother came into the house and scolded her little daughter.

"I just can't get used to seeing my sister-in-law pry the third brother to leave, I hate people to death, I hate people to death, what is the third sister-in-law doing when she comes to our house?"

"Well, I have to go and scratch others, since the third sister-in-law came, when will the brothers and sisters not be clean? Mother, look at the fish in front of the third brother's house, what did the third brother's house have before? The three of them ate one meal a day, and they were called around by the eldest brother and the second brother. ”

"It's only been a few good days, huh? Sister-in-law is red and jealous? I want my third sister-in-law to go, what good will it do to her if my third sister-in-law leaves? If you want me to say that the third brother is also a dead fish with a lack of heart. ”

"As long as you don't lack hearts, just hello, everyone is a set," Zhou's mother pointed to her daughter's forehead and scolded in disgust.

Lotus made a grimace, "If I were a man, I would be willing to marry the third sister-in-law, don't look at the third sister-in-law, but people have the ability to live, if she is not a little better, she will not be able to stay in our family at all, and she will have to be bullied to death by the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law." ”

"If you don't distinguish between good and bad like my sister, and you forget your last name if someone casually brings two sentences, your father and mother will have to worry about it," Lotus said with a frown.

Mother Zhou's eyes also flashed helplessness, and she sighed deeply, "Your sister has been qualitating for more than ten years, and it is difficult to change it!" ”

Lian Hui stood at the door, a little dazed and at a loss.

……

"Mother, do you want it all?"

"Yes," Shui Qing replied as he looked up at the branch that the stone had brought to him.

"You take more branches and go back to use, take advantage of the good day to smoke more fish, and when the flood rises in October, we will go up to Gaoyangpo to avoid the flood, and when we come back, we will sell it in Fucheng and use it for money."

"Understood," the two children replied in unison.

Shui Qing climbed the tree with a knife and threw it down, and the two children picked up the branches under the tree and carried them to the boat.

Chop a boat full of branches and row back for three people, Yuehuzhuang has nothing but can live in the bare everywhere, Shui Qing rocks the boat out every morning to catch fish, and goes to Huluzhuang to cut trees and go back to smoke fish.

No one lives on this island, most of them are stones that can't live in people, there is a part of the fat soil in the middle, but the grass is too deep and there is more than one person high, the back part is low branches, and no one usually comes to cut branches or anything, mainly too far away from Zhuangzi There are no fish nearby, and it takes a day to go back and forth, which is inconvenient.

When he returned home, Shui Qing went ashore, tied up the boat, jumped down, and came down from the boat with a tree branch.

Zhou Xingping came over with a basket and a flat pole, squatted on the ground and tied the branches into bundles and carried them to the pot house to pile up.

"Have you made any food?"

"Yes," he replied silently, limping back and forth with his pole.

After more than ten days of training, the two children are really getting more and more clever in picking fish every day!

The branches in the boat were cleaned and pushed to the shore, tied up, and the fish were put into nets and thrown into the lake to raise.

"Tomorrow you two will go and sell the fish early in the morning, and go buy two jars of salt as usual and come back."

"Mother, we have a lot of salt in our house, do you still want to buy it?"

"Of course you have to buy it, so many fish need salt, why don't you buy it?"

"But I see that the fish is dried and there is no need for salt?" Cao Mozi asked Shui Qing in puzzlement.

"Dried can't be saved, we rely on the lake humidity, don't dry the fish for two days will be moldy, the chef of the restaurant is an expert, the fish is good to get under the nose and smell it, especially the moldy fish can't be sold at a high price, after eating, you two washed the pots and dishes."

"I'll take your dad to make smoked fish, and in the future, let's go out to fish and chop firewood, and the family will be handed over to your dad to smoke fish.

"Don't look at the tax money now, just wait to drink the northwest wind!" After Shui Qingxu finished chattering, he gulped down the rice.

The two children don't care about it, they just know that it's good to eat and drink enough every day! I look forward to winter coming soon, so that they can wear the cotton clothes they have in mind.

Zhou Xingping is still eating silently, he can't say more than ten words a day, with his eldest brother and second brother scolding him, ten sticks can't beat a fart, and he doesn't expect the third brother to be in charge!

"Mother, don't you sell so many duck eggs?"

"It's not worth selling it, I'll make salted eggs and give it to your brothers and sisters to eat every day to grow their bodies."

"Mother......" The stone looked at Shui Qing a little warmly.

"It's not promising, and I don't know the north for two days? If you do what you can to repay me, people can only be tough by themselves, rely on others to live under the feet of others forever, the mountains will fall, everyone will run, and they will not suffer a loss to themselves, so people dare not look down on you, remember? ”

"Remember, I will definitely do more things in the future."

"Even if you are illiterate and have not opened your mind, even if you struggle for a lifetime, you will just live in Yuehuzhuang, and when the weather is cold and you are not too busy, you can learn a few words from me, and only when your mind is enlightened can you know how to live," Shui Qing reached out and touched the stone's dull hair.

Zhou Xingping looked at Shui Qing's babbling in a daze.

"I also want to learn from my mother," Cao Mozi looked at Shui Qing with tears in her eyes.

"Then learn with me! Girls need to know a few words, and they will know how to educate their children when they get married in the future. ”

Stone smirked after listening to hehe.

"Did you dig the pit I asked you to dig?"

"Dig," Zhou Xingping replied briefly.

After eating, the two adults pushed their bowls and carried two bundles of branches to the small house, and he searched and searched for the only place where he could dig a pit.

"You make a fire in the pit, I'll go and bring a basket of dried fish," Shui Qing instructed to quickly run to the pot house and bring a large basket of fish.

When the fire burned, Shui Qing covered the stones on the big fire pit, and when the stones were particularly hot, she took out the fish from the basket and spread them on the stones one by one, and set up a layer of unknown leaves to cover them tightly, and then pressed a thin layer of stones to press tightly, the fire in the fire pit was first big and then small, and slowly there was a strong smell of fish in the cracks of the stones.

"Smell the fragrance and go to another fire pit," Shui Qing instructed himself to bring a basin of mud mixed with water and harmony, and paste the pit where the fire was burning tightly, and paste the gaps in the pressed stone slabs.

"How many pits did you dig out?"

"Three, it's not enough for me to dig it again," Zhou Xingping watched her return.

Shui Qing looked at the basket, "That's all!" Do three pits every night, and you can finish it in a few days. ”

The three pits are lit one by one and put on the mud, and a basket of small fish is fished up to wash the fish, this kind of fish that is not big enough to catch up and not let go, the water is clear to squeeze the fish to wash and dry, ready to keep the winter to make spicy fish as an income.

Zhou Xingping didn't know how to live a good family, he only knew that Shui Qing came to his house from morning to night, everything at home was kept and sold, and he could eat two full meals in the morning and evening a day.