Chapter 296: The White-haired Old Man's Family
Time goes back to before nightfall, when the sun was setting.
The original villagers of the village, basically, finished their dinner early, checked the debris under the threshold, and went to bed.
For them, when they are asleep and cannot hear the harassment and temptation of the monsters outside, it is impossible to open the door for them.
As long as you don't open the door, your home will be safe.
Therefore, falling asleep is the best way to survive.
When the original villagers of the village basically had to go to bed, the outsiders who had just been assigned a house had just received dinner from someone sent from the village.
Similar to the house last night, the outsiders who had just integrated into the night village were still assigned houses in small groups.
The five members of the Minghuang Mountain Spiritual Domain team lived together, the two brothers of the strong man duo lived together, the white-haired old man's family of four lived together, and the lonely scholar lived in a small house alone.
The rest of the people ate the food delivered from the village, basically feeling that it was the same as yesterday, and it was still tasteless and a pity to abandon it.
Even, some people couldn't eat after only two bites, so they chose to listen to the advice of the white-bearded old man and went to bed early.
Only the white-haired old man's family is still slowly tasting these foods.
The white-haired old man picked up a piece of salted meat and put it in his mouth, closed his eyes, and chewed slowly with his mouth, his face full of expressions of enjoyment, as if he was tasting some peerless delicacy.
A piece of salted meat, he chewed it in his mouth, without a trace of taste, and then swallowed it reluctantly.
"This meat still has to be eaten separately to be the most fragrant! With rice, I was robbed of the taste of rice! The white-haired old man sighed after eating a slice of salted meat, and then picked up a chopstick pickle and put it in a bowl.
Finally, he picked up the bowl with one hand and pulled it with chopsticks in the other, put the pickles and a large mouthful of rice into his mouth, and chewed slowly again.
The pickles, which were unreachable in the eyes of others and felt that they were dying, came to him as if they had become delicious food, and he ate them with relish.
The white-haired old man chewed the rice for a while, swallowed it, and then looked at his youngest son and said, "Dongsheng, in the afternoon, I followed the village chief to take a look at the land allocated to our family in the village. ”
"Ouch, it's not your father and I'm blowing it with you, that piece of land, it's really amazing! It's fat! I reached for it and grabbed it, and I felt like I could get the oil out! ”
"It's just that there are a lot of weeds in the field, I'll take you to the field tomorrow to take a look, and by the way, remove the weeds, and then plant some melons, fruits and vegetables or something! We have hands and feet, and it's not suitable to eat from the village all the time! ”
"Besides, the village can give us food for ten days and half a month, which is already very good, we can't expect to rely on the villagers for the rest of our lives, right? If there is no food in the village one day, then our family can't wait to starve to death, right? ”
"To be a man, you still have to rely on yourself! We croppers, we still have to have land, and our hearts can be steady! ”
"Okay, Dad. I know, I'll go to the field with you tomorrow. The honest middle-aged man who was eating raised his head and glanced at his father, and replied angrily.
The white-haired old man nodded, and then admonished: "The village chief can tell me, that piece of land is the best and fattest piece of land in the whole village." ”
"In the past, I don't know how many outsiders came here, all of them were eyeing that piece of land, but he was not willing to give it!"
"This is also to think, you Lao Tzu and I look pleasing to the eye, talk speculatively, and believe in our family's ability, so I gave that piece of land to our family."
"Our family, who has been a tenant for so many years, finally has a land of their own. You kid must work hard, do it well! Don't let down this land, let alone the village chief, and the kindness of the village, have you heard? ”
"I hear you, Daddy. Dad, don't worry, what kind of skills do I have, others don't know, don't you know? I don't have other skills, but if I want to talk about the ability to farm, I dare to say second, no one ...... Forehead...... Except for Dad, no one dares to call it the first! While the honest middle-aged man boasted, he also patted his father's ass by the way.
The white-haired old man was obviously very interested in the sycophants of the honest middle-aged man, nodded with satisfaction, took another bite of rice, and chewed it.
Chewing and chewing, the old man looked at his son, and suddenly sighed: "Dongsheng, you are not young anymore, it is time for you to ask for a daughter-in-law and give birth to a baby!" ”
The white-bearded old man said this to the honest middle-aged man, but before he could respond, he laughed at the woman who was feeding the child on the side.
"Huh!" The woman sneered, rolled her eyes, and said, "With our family's family conditions, what do you want to ask for a daughter-in-law for your brother-in-law?" It's good to be alive! ”
"What's wrong with our family's conditions?" The white-haired old man glared at the middle-aged woman and said, "In the past, our family had no money and no land, so Chunsheng married you differently?" Now that our family has land, why can't Dongsheng ask for a daughter-in-law? ”
"Humph!" The middle-aged woman snorted coldly and said coldly, "The reason why I married into your family. On the one hand, it's because our family is poorer, and my parents have several children to raise, so they want to marry me off! ”
On the other hand, it is also because Chunsheng is not only hardworking and capable, but also able to speak, and the landlord likes his cleverness. I think I have hope for following Chunsheng, so I married into your family! ”
"But who knows, I've only been married for a few years? Chunsheng was ruined by your bad old man, leaving us orphans and widows to suffer in this world! I knew that this would be the case, I would marry Liu Blacksmith at the head of the village, and I would not marry into your family! ”
The white-haired old man's good mood just now was wiped out at this moment, and he said with a white face: "Chunsheng is my son!" He is missing, you are sad alone, are you alone in worry? I don't have heartache, I don't regret it? ”
"Yes, our family is sorry for you, and we are sorry for your son. But we tried our best to make up for it, over the years, Dongsheng and I, even if we couldn't eat enough and couldn't dress warmly, we worked hard to keep you two fed and clothed, what else do you want? ”
The middle-aged woman was choked by the white-haired old man's words, and after a long pause, she said stupidly, "What do you want to do?" I'm just trying to make that fact clear to you. ”
"When we came to this village, it can be said that we have nothing, where to live, what to eat, and the land we planted, all of which were given by other people's villages!"
"To put it mildly, we're almost like beggars!"
"The people in this village, their families have houses and fields, food and clothing, and their lives are much better than ours, who will marry their daughters to our family?"
"Who is a parent, doesn't want his daughter to marry into a good family? Those who have daughters must want to marry their daughters to better people, how can they marry into our family? ”
"Instead of daydreaming here, it's better to think about how to live the rest of your life!"
"What's wrong with life being better than our family now? Our family now has its own land, and everything we grow belongs to us, and my son is hardworking and capable, won't his life get better day by day? The white-haired old man retorted unconvinced.
After refuting the eldest daughter-in-law, the white-haired old man looked at his younger son and comforted: "Dongsheng, don't listen to your sister-in-law's nonsense, Dad believes in your ability." ”
"We don't have anything now, but we have land. With the field, as long as we work hard, there will be vegetables and grain in the future, and life will get better day by day! ”
"When we don't have to worry about food and clothing, naturally, some people want to marry the girl to our family!"
"Besides, the people in the village may look down on us, but those outsiders who came with us are different. How can you be so good at their work? ”
"The village chief can tell me this afternoon, now we will distribute food, it is only temporary, after all, the village cannot support us for a lifetime! In the future, we will definitely allocate fields to everyone, so that everyone can be self-reliant and support themselves! ”
"If you think about yourself, you can farm, you can fish, you can raise pigs, not to mention chickens, ducks and geese, isn't that sprinkled with water? But those outsiders are different. ”
"Think of other outlanders. Just those guys, either they are weak scholars who can't even kill a chicken, or they can only fight and kill, let him fight okay, let him farm, he may not be able to distinguish between seedlings and weeds! ”
"How can they compare with you in these aspects? When the time comes, our family will grow food, and the village will not distribute food, and they will have no food to eat, so they will not be able to ask for it? ”
"When they ask for us, are you still afraid that you won't be able to marry a daughter-in-law? Those girls, aren't you going to marry whoever you want? ”