Father has changed, has become generous, and is no longer submissive in front of outsiders, father bought a flying pigeon brand bicycle for Brother Dundun, because the second brother and Brother Dundun are in a school, so they rode a bicycle back together on Saturday night, and rode a bicycle back to school together on Sunday night.

My family also bought a black and white TV, put it in the yard every night, the whole village of all ages came to watch TV, the stepmother dressed herself like a courtesan, busy before and after the old and young to watch the TV to serve tea and pour water, to me and the eldest brother baby screaming one by one, for fear that others would see that her stepmother is not good.

My eldest brother no longer went out to work, and my father painted the wall of the room where my second uncle's family used to live in my yard white, pasted the ceiling, and bought a kang cabinet and a large standing cabinet, saying that it was for the eldest brother to use as a wedding room.

My family's popularity has also improved, the men and women in the village like to run to my house when they have nothing to do, it is winter, everyone is idle, the men get together to smoke dry tobacco, pull the homework, the women hold the manual work, sit on my hot upper room kang, pull the soles, make insoles, the east and the west are short, even the aunts and aunts who rarely came to my house before are also unable to report at every turn.

By the way, I forgot to mention that I also have a stove in the upper room of my house, and I use coal to burn the stove vigorously.

I still cook the whole family's meals and feed my pigs and sheep, because the eldest brother is at home and the donkey is taken care of by the eldest brother. I don't know if my stepmother is in a good mood or if there are many people at home every day, I'm afraid that others will see her and say that she is not a good stepmother? Anyway, she doesn't stare at me anymore and doesn't scold me a lot anymore. Dad was a lot more gentle with me, and anyway, my life was better.

One day, the family began to be busy, saying that my brother's girlfriend and her family were coming, and my father asked my eldest brother to kill the big rooster that I had fed for two years, and also bought meat, and called the second daughter-in-law of Wang, who was the best at cooking in the village, to cook for us.

After a while, the courtyard became lively, and through the kitchen window, I saw the eldest brother, stepmother, and father and their group of three people coming in, one was the second Li from our village, and the other was a girl wearing a pink headscarf and a flower cotton jacket, and next to the girl was a woman wearing dark blue clothes and a purple headscarf, and they were welcomed into the upper room.

Wang's second daughter-in-law said: "Why didn't I see what your brother's girlfriend looks like, but she seems to be quite tall." I said, "I think I'm pretty tall, too." ”

I made chicken soup and noodles, and Wang's second daughter-in-law mixed eight dishes of cold dishes. At this time, the eldest brother came in with his girlfriend, and the eldest brother introduced us, he introduced the girl and said: "This is my girlfriend Yingying", and introduced Wang's second daughter-in-law and said: "This is the second sister-in-law of Wang's second brother's family, the meal is well cooked, and she specially invited to help us today", and then introduced me and said: "My sister Lingling". Yingying said to Wang's second daughter-in-law: "Thank you for your hard work, second sister-in-law", and Wang's second daughter-in-law hurriedly said no hard work, no hard work. Then she grabbed my hand and said, "Lingling, I heard your eldest brother talk about you, look at your hand, why are there so many cracks, and there are frostbite, does it hurt?" "I think she's a sister, that kind of warm sister, the kind of warmth that I've always craved. I said, "It's okay sister, it's my bad skin, I usually cook and wash the pot without drying my hands and go out of the house, and I am blown by the wind, and it will be fine in the summer." She said, "Why don't you buy a Vaseline liniment?" Put on gloves when you go out to work! She asked her eldest brother to go to the upper room and fetch her gloves, and she had to give them to me, so I had to accept them.

Sister Yingying is not beautiful, except for being tall and big, I don't see any difference between her and the girls we have here, she has a lot of freckles on her face, and her teeth are a little protruding, but I feel that she is the most beautiful girl in the world, because she is very kind and has a beautiful heart.

The stepmother told them to go to the room and get ready for dinner. I and the second daughter-in-law continued to be busy, the second daughter-in-law of the king: "This girl feels good, you are still young, you have to stay in your mother's house for a few years before you can get married, it is a blessing for your baby to meet a good sister-in-law......

After eating, Sister Yingying brought the woman who came with her to the kitchen, the woman was about forty or fifty years old, she looked kind and kind, because of working in the countryside, her skin was coarse and dark, and her face was full of wrinkles, but she looked very kind, Sister Yingying introduced that she was her mother, and the woman said: "Yingying was spoiled by me, she has been studying, and she has done little housework, and as a result, she has not read the book (the meaning of not being admitted to college), and she will not do housework, you will teach her more in the future." Sister Yingying hugged her mother and said coquettishly, "Mom, what do you say?" "I didn't know what to say, just giggled. Wang's second daughter-in-law said: "I'm straight, what do I say, don't blame you if it's not right, Lingling's baby is a bitter baby, she has no mother since she was a child, her grandmother is an old feudal, and her patriarchal thinking is particularly serious, and she is not good for this baby, this stepmother ......" She stopped talking about her stepmother, and then said, "People often say that sister-in-law is like a mother, I hope Yingying will treat this baby well." Sister Yingying hurriedly grabbed me and said, "I know, I will definitely treat Lingling well." ”

Before the Spring Festival, the pigs I fed were slaughtered, and the sheep were also killed, because the eldest brother was getting married, and the family was very busy.

I picked and washed the dried radishes dried in the summer, and moved the cabbage, Chinese cabbage, green onions, and artichokes out of the cellar one by one.

In the courtyard, a tent was set up with plastic sheeting, tables and chairs were moved, and the portraits of grandparents were placed on the table in the upper room and incense was added.

The windows and doors of the eldest brother's newly renovated house were pasted with paper-cuts and happy characters, relatives and friends all came, and all the people in the village came, of course, Qian Jiangjiang also came, and it is said that he brought a lot of gifts and paid a share of the money. The eldest brother took Qian Jiangjiang and five or six people to pick up the sister-in-law in a tractor. I told Wang's second daughter-in-law that I wanted to see the bride, so they allowed me to go out to see for a while when the bride entered the house, so I came to the gate and saw a big red cloth hanging on the tractor head, and there were more than a dozen people sitting in the car, Sister Yingying and the eldest brother sat in the middle, Sister Yingying was wearing a big red cotton shirt and cotton pants, a red headscarf on her head, and red cotton shoes on her feet. Then the eldest brother and sister-in-law kowtowed to the portrait of their grandparents, and kowtowed to their father and stepmother, and the sister-in-law was carried to their new house by the eldest brother. The children were shouting, screaming, and making noise in the house, saying that it was as lively as it was.

In the courtyard, the sister-in-law and the eldest brother toasted everyone one by one, and everyone said blessings to them, and some young people didn't know what to say to them, only to see that the sister-in-law blushed in an instant.

It was lively until the evening, when the people in the village dispersed and relatives who were far away stayed.

In the evening, I heard Wang's second daughter-in-law say that the next day the relatives had to eat the new daughter-in-law's trial noodles (rolled long noodles) before they could leave. I think there are so many relatives, how can my sister-in-law be able to roll it out alone? So I got up in the middle of the night and rolled out the noodles before dawn.

Early in the morning, a relative estimated that he had drunk too much the night before and hadn't woken up yet, right? He had to ask his sister-in-law to roll noodles in front of him. So my sister-in-law came to the kitchen, I helped her scoop up the flour, the relative didn't allow me to move anymore, and the sister-in-law began to make noodles, and then the eldest brother came in, he pulled me aside, glared at me viciously, and said, "What do you want you to do, don't you know how to roll the noodles earlier?" "Maybe I've been scolded by my eldest brother since I was a child, or maybe I'm not good at words, I look at my eldest brother and don't know what to say.