Chapter 4: Ploughing and Reading People's Homes
Old man Cheng drank medicine and fell asleep, and Cheng Jiaojiao was punished by the old lady to kneel in the courtyard for two hours, and was not allowed to eat for a day.
The punishment doesn't seem to be high, but as Yang said: "It's okay for our first seven days, how can we really kill her?" Your second uncle's two slaps were not light, and half of her face was swollen. Punished for kneeling for two hours, our yard was full of sand and gravel, and she was thinly dressed, and she was afraid that it would hurt badly when she knelt down on her knees. ”
There is also Goro supervising by the side, and it is impossible for Qu to put a knee pad on her or something.
What Yang didn't tell his children was that Cheng Jiaojiao's work, coupled with the previous quarrel between her and Qu's learning, the old man and the old lady would definitely dislike her, plus she pushed her cousin into the water in full view, this reputation will definitely not be good, and future marriages will be affected.
Cheng Chuqi didn't sympathize with her at one point, what is this punishment compared to the life of a little girl?
She just didn't expect that the old man would be angry with a few words.
Yang muttered a few words, thinking of the suffering of these years and Qu's temperament, she warned several children: "This matter, Jiaojiao has been punished, even if it is over." No matter how dissatisfied I am, I will hold it in my heart. Think about those years, if there was no family to support your father's study, where would your father be able to hold on for so many years, no matter how your aunt is, she is also a member of the family, and your father is ashamed of the family now......"
If a few children are dissatisfied with their faces, not to mention Qu's, even other people will have some ideas.
She said a few miscellaneous words, and when she saw that several children were respectfully responding, she touched the head of Chu Qi, "You have a good rest, my mother will go out and have a look!" ”
"In the first year of junior high school, I will help your third aunt and fourth aunt cook, and you two will go to school."
After sending everyone out, Yang didn't leave immediately, but touched her head and asked, "Who taught you those words you said before?" ”
Yun Zong is still young, and it is impossible to say those words, so it can only be Chu Yi and Yun Hui.
Chu Qi's face was ignorant, "What words?" Oh, what do you say? She shook her head: "No one teaches, I just learned what the third sister said that day again." What's wrong, mother? Am I not right? Shouldn't I intercede with the third sister? ”
Yang was dumbfounded, are you pleading? That's clearly burning oil on fire.
She opened her mouth and wanted to teach her daughter a few words, but in those years, Qu's meanness, Cheng Jiaojiao, a junior, dared to be disrespectful to her elders, and her daughter almost died when she fell into the water...... One scene after another, her words came to her lips but she swallowed them.
Forget it, let's talk about it later!
In the blink of an eye, only Cheng Chuqi was left in the room.
She also knew that she had been a little presumptuous before, but fortunately, the original owner Xiao Chuqi was a stubborn child, and Yang did not suspect that her daughter had changed her core.
She breathed a sigh of relief, and then she had time to look around the room, confirming each other's impressions.
The room where they live in the big room is divided into two rooms, the inner room is where the father and mother live, in addition to a kang by the north, the west side against the wall is a small bookshelf, on which some books are placed, and in front of the bookshelf and under the south window are placed two bookcases, there are some books and pen, ink, paper and inkstone on it, and the pages opened in the middle show that the owner has just seen here.
There is a carved long kang cabinet at the tip of the kang, on which the futon is neatly held.
The outer room has two large inner rooms, and the simple bookshelves are placed on one side against the kang, leaving a one-meter aisle, which simply divides the room into two.
Similarly, a large kang in the north is partitioned with two large wooden boxes with ancient patterns wrapped in copper at four corners, and coarse cloth curtains are hung on the edge of the kang, which is simply divided into two sleeping spaces, where she and her sister live in the first year, and the outside lives her brother Cheng Yunhui and younger brother Cheng Yunzong.
In the southeast and southwest corners of the room there is a carved cabinet, and in front of the window on the outside is a large long table with simple paint and some oil, and if there are seats on both sides that can seat seven or eight children, it seems that it is the place where the children of the family read and write.
This home is a family of cultivators, and the big house is full of bookish fragrance.
Cheng Chuqi felt that his crossing still had a good start compared with those who wore to poor people's homes.
A talented father who is about to participate in the autumn exam, a gentle and capable mother, and an older brother who is good at reading, a sister with a wise blue heart, a lively and lovely younger brother, and grandparents and aunts and aunts who are in a big house, etc., are her current family.
She heard her father's slightly pleasant but visibly suppressed voice outside, "...... I really didn't expect that we would say a few sentences in the seventh day of junior high school, which was clearly organized...... It can be seen that she usually doesn't like to talk, but she knows it in her heart, and she is smart......"
The second aunt's crying was long gone, and when she heard this, she said with a bit of yin and yang: "Yo, you can't speak until you're ten years old, how can you be embarrassed to say her 'smart' words!" ”
Meanness as always.
Cheng Da was not angry, and corrected him good-naturedly: "Didn't she just open her mouth on the seventh day of the first month, she called 'Daddy' when she was a child." It was only when he was frightened that he stopped talking. ”
Second Aunt Qu's face changed, and before she could speak, she heard Cheng Er smile and say, "It's a great joy that the seventh day of the first month will speak." Hurry up and cut a piece of meat, and give the seventh day of the first month at noon! It's a reparation, and it's also a mend for our father. ”
Qu Shi glanced at the man, "You cut a piece of meat from me!" She wanted to say: We Jiaojiao have also suffered, and we just want to suppress the shock!
But when she looked at the old lady with a gloomy face, she didn't dare to squeak.
Cheng Jiaojiao is her own niece, her reputation is going to be ruined, and her other girls will not be much better. What's more, this child has more problems, but he is not that vicious.
Cheng Da hurriedly said: "It's all my own family, and it's common for the two sisters to fight and make trouble, this is purely an accident, and the second child doesn't need to mention it again." ”
Qu's face looked better, and he muttered in a low voice: "You know each other!" ”
Cheng Da didn't hear what she said, and he didn't care, their husband and wife have been like this all these years, if they care about her in everything, and they don't have to do anything else, how can this family be like this, they have to jump every day, and they can't stop.
He smiled and said, "But the second child is right! Dad really wants to make up for his body, I will ask your sister-in-law to cut a piece of meat and come back to stew. ”
Yang is very skillful, can embroider and paint, and does not hide his secrets, several younger siblings and sisters-in-law also want to learn and teach, and do their best. But no one else did her embroidery well, but most of the money she earned was used to buy paper, ink, pens and inkstones for her husband and children, but her private room was much less than that of other rooms.
In this way, Qu was also envious and jealous of her.
At this moment, when he heard that the Yang family was paying for meat, he nodded busily, "Then it's troublesome sister-in-law, I don't have money but I can contribute, I will cover today's dinner." ”
As long as Qu thinks about it, he is still quite good at talking.
It's just that her cooking level is average, Cheng Er once said to the children: "Your mother's level is that she can cook it, fool around and eat enough, if you want to eat well, you have to cook it with your aunt and your third aunt." ”
Cheng Er hurriedly pulled her: "Isn't it the turn of the third daughter-in-law to be the main stove today?" Didn't my mother let you clean up the vegetable garden? Don't hurry yet. ”
Qu pouted, and when he walked out, he didn't forget to pull Cheng Wu's daughter-in-law, who had just married in the spring, "What are you doing with the pestle?" Go, work with me! ”
Who told the fifth person who owed it just now to go out and call Yun Xiu, look at Fu's pretending to be a person, these two are not good cakes.
Fu Shi lowered his head and followed silently, but was stopped by the old lady, and said angrily: "Am I a mother-in-law or is she a mother-in-law?" You can do whatever she tells you to do? Let her clean up by herself, and you help your third sister-in-law cook the fire! ”
Fu's face turned red, answered in a low voice, and pulled the corner of his clothes into the kitchen.
Qu's anger was enough, but he knew that Jiaojiao had completely offended the old lady this time, and she, a mother, also ate melons.
This was the punishment given by the old lady in anger, and she didn't dare to say more, so she went to the vegetable garden alone.