Today, the Xu family only came to two cars, and one was lent to the village.

Today is the fourth year of the Lunar New Year, and the village has begun to fish collectively.

The two cars that arrived had already dismantled their carriages when they came.

The plan was to use oxen to pull the trees down and plow the logs to bring them home.

The so-called ox-pulled climbing plough ploughs and pouring wood refers to tying firewood together and putting it on the big climbing plow, and then the oxen directly dragging it, using all the way to slide and save effort to pull it towards home.

At this time, counting the felled amber piers, the group carried down a total of ten trees of various sizes.

At the foot of the mountain, the beautiful man's small pillar was commanding: "Five in a bundle, quickly hide the beauty in it." Also, this thick ash should be hidden. ”

Among the ten big trees, four big trees are extremely thick, which shows how greedy they are to cut down for more than a hundred years, and two strong men can only hold them hand in hand.

Moreover, the freshly cut down trees that have not been placed to dry look like a thousand pounds, but in fact with the addition of water, they are much heavier than the trunk itself.

When the group arrived at the foot of the mountain, they could no longer use the landslide to save effort, Xu Youcang, Liu Jingdong, Xu Youliang and Red Date Daddy were shouting the trumpet, working together to carry the trees to the side of the ox cart.

"Come, I'll shout, let's get up." Xu Youliang shouted: "Get up! ”

The four strong men worked together, slowly standing up straight and carrying the wood.

In this way, one by one, one by one, one deep, one foot shallow, one foot was lifted to the side of the road, and then tied up in groups of five and placed on the climbing plow.

Xu Youyin and his two nephews were also very tired, and they were taking turns hugging Amber Wood.

The beautiful man didn't carry the wood, but after he instructed everyone on how to hide and cherish the wood, he ran in front of the two cows, and he didn't eat to feed the cows. I didn't want to drink the water I brought, and I fed it to the cows.

Half an hour later, there was a scene of oxen pulling a large bundle of round logs on the road.

When they encounter a downhill slope, these people will sit on the wood to rest, or when the wind and cold air are not covered.

If they went uphill, they came down again and dragged the oxen with their own strength.

Sometimes I feel too sorry for my own cattle, especially the jujube father.

The Xu family's jujube red cow is too enviable for the men, and it can be said that the whole village is reluctant to call.

These people would rather be tired enough to choke than waste oxen pushing wood in the back.

The north country is beautiful, but the cold north wind is really whistling by.

It was clear that there was no snow, but the residual snow foam accumulated on the road surface stained the cotton hats of several people white, and also stained the masks and eyebrows with frost, so that they could not see the road ahead clearly when the wind was at its highest.

Xu Youliang looked at the red-letter street sign that the Zhenbei Army had learned from them, and the street sign showed that there was a village in front of them, which made them hungry, the more tired and cold, the more hungry they were.

Xu Youliang took the dry food handed by Liu Jingdong, afraid that everyone would not be able to hear clearly, and shouted: "Do you want to light a fire to roast a fire?" "It's all here to help his Xu family, and it's all very hard.

What kind of fire is baking, there is not even a barren mountain next to the road, and there is nowhere to find a leeward place to warm up, and the little pillar was the first to reply: "Let's go, don't forget that we also secretly cut down the trees of the General's Mansion." ”

Thinking about it, the heart is in the throat, the mountain is too dangerous, but the prison can be imprisoned, and you have to be careful with everything you pick up in the future.

Right now, Uncle Li Zheng will help them find a way to hide it.

But if he is discovered, he is really worried that he will be taken away as a conscription, "Hurry home and hide." Second brother, don't use a good wood cabinet to hide in Tian Xin'er's house, only for Tian Xin'er, and no one in the little girl's house will look at it. ”

When the rumors passed, no one found out that they had done it.

And then this good wood is so energetic, who uses this kind of wood to make a dowry cabinet is quite stylish, and after two years of unknowing, you can make a dowry for Tian Xin'er. You see, he's not smart about it.

These words made Xu Youyin couldn't help but say: "Brother-in-law...... I found that you have really changed, and you are now really living a good life with my beautiful sister. ”

The beautiful man was stunned, did he hear it wrong just now.

The fourth child of the Xu family actually called him brother-in-law?

When he realized that he had heard it correctly, the beautiful man was extremely happy, and even said honestly: "Of course, our family doesn't talk about two families, your sister is doing it to me now, it's really good, it's not like that...... Hehe, she's beaten me twice in the last two months. ”

A few people hid behind the cow's butt and rode on the wood, while hurriedly gnawing a few rations of dry food to pad their stomachs, they couldn't help laughing when they heard the words, and they were beaten regularly, once a month.

"Brother, eat some more, when did your hand bleed? I'll see how your gloves are bloody. Xu Youyin handed the red jujube dad a steamed bun again, but the jujube dad didn't eat it, wiped his mouth and avoided it with a smile and said, hurry up and drag the cow and let's hurry up, just after the downhill road, we can save a lot of effort, or we won't be able to get home after dark.

As for the hand cut, it doesn't hurt our peasant men.

Red date daddy is very rare to be with these strong guys, and he is full of energy.

He didn't realize that he was smiling much more today than he used to be in bad weather.

And just in this group of people from dawn to dark to rush home, but also led by Dapeng to copy the path, do not want to go to the serious checkpoint was found to be logging, everyone unanimously passed to evade taxes, the Xu family came today a few groups of special guests to visit the New Year.

A group of four people came back and forth.

Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin were put back into production, but they were not at home at all.

Even Yu Qinniang and the table were busy with a group of women on the other side of the shop.

Liu Laozhu was directing the group to fish on the river again.

So the old lady hurriedly called the daughter in the next yard with Xiao Nannan on her back and asked her to call her daughter-in-law home, but she never expected that one day the Li Zheng would chop wood for her family.

What's going on? Every family has a father, to tell the truth, your own father and mother are Buddhas, what Buddha do you go outside to worship, and what kind of filial piety you have.

"But you don't need to come in and sit down."

These four people who love to study are also really fighting, and they find that the door of Zhenting's house is closed, and they can't slip away. I plan to take the route of Zhao Dashan's godmother. Outsiders who don't know that the godmother is even better than the mother-in-law.

Of course, even if there is no Zhao Dashan, these people plan to form a group to see the old lady, and bring some gifts to visit the elders and the Xu family.

It doesn't matter if you don't know each other, you won't know each other if you come two more times for the New Year and festivals in the future.

Just when the old lady stopped to chop firewood, another group of guests came to the gate of the courtyard, they were the juniors of the Xujiazhuang families, like the eldest grandson of the fifth grandmother who came with five or ten eggs.

The group of relatives stood at the door and was stunned. What's going on? The one who is chopping firewood seems to be Sun Lizheng, who has a little daughter-in-law's family in the village.

This Sun Li is coaxing the cattle in the village, he doesn't do his own work, and he runs to the Xu family to take off his cotton jacket and chop wood?

The old lady poured hot water on her back and told her hometown Zhuangzi and nephews: "Sit, you guys, squatting and doing a lot, sitting on the hot kang." ”

When these men came, the Xu family was restrained.

Looking at the four of them, and looking at the ones they were wearing, how could they be on an equal footing with others, and their clothes were not so clean, so they squatted and drank some hot water, and warmed up their bodies and walked quickly.

They said that they were not in a hurry to come, and they knew that there were many distinguished guests in the first month of the Xu family, so how could they take care of them. But the father and mother of the family had to come quickly, not to say that the Xu family was about to ask them to work and then bring the New Year's gift to the door, as if something was going on. Right now, bring a few eggs or a pound of pig's head meat, and then kowtow to the old lady, regardless of whether it is more or less.

Just when these men were restless, and the old lady was looking forward to why her second daughter-in-law hadn't come home, the sound of rolling wheels suddenly came from the door: "Phew." ”

The visitor didn't enter the hospital, but the voice came in first: "Emma, auntie, have you been thinking about us for a long time?" Don't mention it, we just got ......."

Zhao Dashan's daughter-in-law entered the hospital and was stunned when she saw those people.

Zhao Dashan's son Wangcai and the coachman each carried a basket of duck eggs into the hospital, and Wangcai was also stunned.

There were also two cartloads full of freshly collected duck eggs outside.

By the way, the two helped the Xu family bring the duck eggs they ordered.

"Madam, is Lord Zhao here too?" The four of them were in a hurry to meet them at the door.

Dashan's daughter-in-law was a little surprised, she looked at her son first, she had seen these people as a paperwork, and confirmed that it was the village next to her as she thought, she smiled heartily first, explaining that she didn't know where Lord Zhao had gone again, and that the New Year had not stopped, one thing after another, and the current office was very busy, and then said:

"What are you doing here, put it down quickly, you don't need to chop wood. There is no husband or wife here, I am the daughter-in-law of this family, I said that if you don't have to do it, you don't need it, this is what you do. The visitor is a guest, come into the house and drink water. ”

In the blink of an eye, the daughter-in-law of the mountain liberated the old lady, and she not only settled down to sit down and talk. We don't need them to chop firewood, so let Wangcai go to chop after unloading the duck eggs. And Nan Nan, who took the old lady's back, and held it in his arms.

Today, Dayue went out to work, Nan Nan was a little uncomfortable, and if she didn't play honestly on the kang, she had to rely on people's backs to hold her.

Dashan's daughter-in-law did not forget those relatives in Xujiazhuang, "Take a stool to sit, if you don't sit, come, come, I'll bring it to you." ”

This frightened the relatives of Xujiazhuang, how dare they let Mrs. Zhenting take a stool: "Let's go." ”

"Don't go, didn't you go into the house with me front and back? You haven't seen my aunt either, have you? ”

The old lady said yes, she was busy enough today. In the blink of an eye, there was another wave of guests, and she was busy making glutinous rice for the god of the stove. Stick to the mouth of the king of the stove like this and pay some sugar, and the king of the stove will play a good thing in the sky after eating, and help them say good things about the old Xu family, and the lower world will be auspicious.

There is a small sign on the side of the Xujia stove, which reads "Fire is blessed with the stove", and the candlesticks are all placed, but half of the glutinous rice is thrown there.

After a while, Mrs. Xu finally came back with a trot: "Oh, who is this?" ”

Zhao Dashan's daughter-in-law went out to greet Mrs. Xu and said, "Your daughter-in-law." ”

Mrs. Xu opened the door and laughed when she entered the house, "That's right, my eldest nephew and daughter-in-law are here," and the house became very lively for a while.

Regarding these four Li Zheng carrying four boxes of chickens, ducks, geese and tea New Year's gifts, the first stop was not to Liu Laozhu's house, which was also Li Zheng, but he came here.

And since she said that she was carrying something to see her mother-in-law, walking around and recognizing the door, Mrs. Xu would also inquire about the health of the four elders in Lizheng, and note down who has elders in each family and who has no elders but children.

Mrs. Xu also chatted casually, and asked the four of them about the specialties of each village.

When talking to these, Mrs. Xu did not forget those relatives of Xujiazhuang.

These relatives didn't say anything polite in front of them, and they couldn't wait to put down their things and leave the Xu family quickly, they didn't want to stay longer for a moment, they were uncomfortable.

But after they returned to Xujiazhuang, they were very excited, and they would carefully study the scene they saw in Xu's house.

and Mrs. Xu didn't even open her mouth to leave those people to eat, but she really wanted to leave them for dinner.

What is a positive law?

"That noodles were washed directly and cooked a lot of rice, and a few of us ran away as soon as we saw it, so we were embarrassed to carry some eggs and eat a meal."

"And I didn't dislike that we were poor relatives at all, the second aunt would talk to a few of us first when she entered the house, and stuffed the melon seeds into our hands first. and Mrs. Zhenting specially introduced that we are relatives of the second aunt's family. Mrs. Zhenting also nodded to us. ”

"I didn't see the grain for them, they were too busy, and they said they were out to deliver the goods."

As for why the men of Xujiazhuang didn't help chop firewood, these people summed it up and said, probably don't look at us as ordinary people, but we really don't have the four who are thick-skinned, even if they want to help with other people's homes, they can't mess with people's things. Those few can go to the barn and turn over the axe by themselves.

This is really, in order to slip on the Erdao River Xu family, they can put down any face, they were stunned, and they also helped to move duck eggs to the next basket.

That's true, even Mrs. Xu didn't know what to say about it, so she came to the door without any friendship, and she had to give her family trouble in return.

Fortunately, these four people saw that the relatives of Xujiazhuang were gone, and they left with a smile after a while, saying that they would go to Liu's house to sit again.

When only Zhao Dashan's daughter-in-law and Mrs. Xu were left, Dashan's daughter-in-law looked at the gold earrings on Mrs. Xu's ears and said angrily: "I should have come here this year!" ”

She bought a heavy weight, and she also bought a pair of gold earrings.

The two of them tore it up, "You always have to take it, it has nothing to do with your nephew, it's my intention." You have always made me earn a lot of private money this year, what's wrong with my filial piety? Don't mention it, auntie, I'm busy this year, my mother-in-law is sick, Wangcai and his father were called away and never came home, saying that the mutual market department asked him to accompany the merchants to see where to see the goods, I don't understand......"

In the end, Mrs. Xu accepted the gold earrings, and Wangcai also specially gave the old lady and Old Man Xu a New Year's greeting. I didn't see Xu Tianxin.

Mrs. Xu thought to herself: It turns out that I was going to order you kid, but this look is not good, because Xu Tianxin milks me, and she was a big lust fan when she was young. This kind of honest-looking, thick-lipped and dark-skinned young man, her granddaughter hasn't waited for anything, she can't get angry first.

To tell the truth, this is not as good as Liu Jingdong, her granddaughter told her, saying that Jingdong is in the original body, let's be honest, if it weren't for the fear of affecting the IQ of the next generation, Jingdong's big and tall person, that high nose bridge and big eyes are really good, and the vision of the original granddaughter is not bad.

However, having said that, whether it is Wangcai or Jingdong, since the Xu family is now good with their parents, our two young men from Zhou Zheng are almost meaningless except for Tian Xin, but they must be picked by other girls.

The mother-in-law in the village got together and chatted together, and also said that if Jingdong's future daughter-in-law is not fat enough, she will be blessed, and if she doesn't agree with her mother-in-law, even a few of them won't agree. That's how simple our children are, and we must be checked.

Mrs. Xu deliberately asked the old lady to take out a red envelope for the New Year, and gave it to Wangcai with a tael of silver in it.

Zhao Wang's wealth is too bad, let his mother take it, how old is he and still get the New Year's money.

Wangcai hurriedly went out and brought several other New Year's gifts into the house.

Zhao Dashan gave the ten catties of beef allocated to him by the official office to the Xu family. Cows are only allowed to eat if they die in a serious way. A few years ago, the division of Zhenbei Mutual City also gave each of the officials some rapeseed oil and two catties of mutton, and only Zhao Dashan got beef.

In addition, Dashan's daughter-in-law was entrusted by her man this time and brought a special gift to the Xu family.

When Xu Youtian was alive, someone who had a good relationship with Xu Youtian gave Mrs. Xu two pieces of clothing materials:

Wangcai's father asked him to convey the original words, and it was also the original words of the man, the man's family will not pick materials, and I don't know if the aunt will be rare. That person is currently in the Zhenbei Army, and he has never left the Huo Family Army, which is different from Wangcai's father...... That's right, auntie, that's what he told him.

The man said that he was too far away to visit you before, but this time he was close, and he was busy with the affairs of the mutual market, and their military camp also had a day off to visit you. ”

Mrs. Xu specially inquired: "What's his name, what is he doing in the camp now?" "Hurry up and think about it, and send some food to people when you send something to the Zhenbei Army.

"Zhang Fengkui, Da Kui. I heard Wangcai's father say that he seems to be the kind of infantry porter in the big battalion? I don't know what kind of troops there are, anyway, he has built a yard for the General's Palace, and he will deliver goods abroad after a while. ”