It rained overnight, and the second morning the sky was blue, but the temperature was much cooler than usual.

Tian Yao rubbed his hands, and planned to make winter clothes again, life seems to be like this, day by day I don't know what I'm busy with, and the days just pass.

It was rare that he slept to get up with Yu Nian, and at this time, the two of them were sitting and the other standing, washing in the yard.

"Are you still going out today?" Yu Nian took the towel handed by Tian Yao and wiped his face.

"Don't go out, I'll go see Liu Zhi in a while." The last time he went to Liu's house, he heard their house arguing, and he was busy these days, so he didn't care about him, and he planned to see him today.

He had breakfast with Yu Nian, and was just about to go out, Liu Zhi came to the door by himself, in order to avoid suspicion, Yu Nian asked Tian Yao to carry him back to the room, leaving the two of them to talk in the courtyard.

"Why do you have time today?" They sat at a low table in the courtyard, and Tian Yao poured him a glass of water.

"It was a mess at home that day, and I didn't talk to you properly." Liu Zhi took a big sip, "You've been okay lately, I heard that Tian Liu came to your house to make trouble." ”

Tian Yao nodded, and told him what happened yesterday, Liu Zhi was a violent temper, and slapped it on the square table: "Shameless, who doesn't know what their family's idea is." ”

"Don't talk about them, what happened to your family that day?"

"It's not my eldest sister, I came back and said that the eldest brother-in-law was messing around outside again, and I wanted my eldest brother and my Chen Xu to support her."

Tian Yao thought for a while: "This is the fifth time, right?" ”

"Who said no, my in-laws said, I really can't get by, just leave, and the family is not bad for her mouthful of food, she doesn't, her mother-in-law is making trouble, my mother-in-law has a headache these days, I take care of it at home, and I have to come to see you today."

Huailing Murata has the surname most, and there are also some people with other surnames, Liu Zhi's husband's surname is Chen, Chen Xu is the youngest son, an older sister and an elder brother. My sister Chen Li is married from a neighboring village.

What I want to say is that the Zhao Qing who climbed Tian Yao's house in the middle of the night who was introduced to Tian Yao earlier was introduced by Chen Xu's sister.

So later, Liu Zhi lent him half a hanging money when Tian Yao held a wedding, and the Chen family had no opinion.

The two chatted for a while, and Liu Zhi stood up: "I'll tell you good news." ”

Tian Yao sent him to the door.

"I'm pregnant."

Tian Yao: !!

"Congratulations!" He reached out to touch Liu Zhi's belly, but it was still flat at this time, and he couldn't feel any difference at all.

"What about you? When are you going to have a baby? Liu Zhi looked at his yard, there was one more person and a dog, but it still looked a little empty, maybe it would be better to have more children in the coming year.

Tian Yao's face turned red, but he always said something to Liu Zhidu: "My husband said that he would have two in three years, but I think that one is enough, you say, right?" ”

Yu Nian in the room heard their conversation clearly.

"That's better for two." Liu Zhi laughed, "Don't you like to be lively the most?" ”

Tian Yao thought that he was pregnant, ignored his refusal, and sent him home, and heard another quarrel in the house from a distance, this time he did not wait outside, but accompanied Liu Zhi into their house.

"Mother! He's even more excessive this time! Directly brought people home, saying that they wanted to marry a flat wife! In the room was Chen Li's mournful cry, "You can't ignore me." ”

Liu Zhi and Tian Yao glanced at each other, and Liu Zhi sighed: "You go back." ”

Tian Yao nodded, but he didn't expect Chen Li in the house to have such good ears and heard their voices, so he opened the door and began to accuse Liu Zhi: "You are not at home early in the morning to honor your in-laws, and you are not at home all day, you ......"

Before she finished her words, she saw Tian Yao standing beside Liu Zhi, and her voice unconsciously became smaller.

She had seen with her own eyes what Zhao Qing was beaten into, her face was swollen like a pig's head, her hands were broken, and her legs were almost broken.

Tian Yao raised a smile: "Eldest sister, do you need my help to beat up my brother-in-law?" I promise, he'll be honest after the beating. ”

Chen Li's expression gradually became distorted: "No, no need. ”

Liu Zhi grabbed Tian Yao's hand and pinched him stiffly in order to hold back his laughter.

Tian Yao looked innocent: "Sister, don't you want Brother Chen and them to support you?" I don't want to solve the problem all at once and give my brother-in-law something, so he won't go outside to look for flowers and ask willows. ”

Chen Li's face twitched: "No need, really don't need it." ”

"I'm the best at this, I don't believe you go and ask your brother-in-law that Zhao Qing in the village, he knows best."

Chen Li couldn't hold back any longer, shouted into the house, and left in a hurry.

Liu Zhi and Tian Yao glanced at each other, caring about the old man in the room, but they couldn't laugh too presumptuously.

When Tian Yao went back, he told Yu Nian about it like a singing, but Yu Nian just looked at him and saw that his back was hairy.

Tian Yao reflected on himself, he had completely forgotten what he had said in front of Liu Zhi this morning, could it be that this matter was too deviant, so Yu Nian was unhappy?

Yu Nian sighed, he still remembered what Tian Yao said at the door of his house this morning.

"You're a brother after all, don't be open-mouthed."

Tian Yao: ???

He pursed his lips: "If it weren't for her introduction, the matchmaker wouldn't have come to my house, that bastard wouldn't have run into my house in the middle of the night, and I wouldn't have beaten him half to death, and finally paid all the money to his house." I'll just talk about it. ”

After listening to his words, Yu Nian knew that the two of them were talking about the donkey's lips and the horse's mouth, and he didn't explain it at this time, but when he heard Tian Yao say about it, he remembered the rumors he had heard before.

"What's going on here?"

Tian Yao was angry and said: "My filial piety period has passed, many people come to say goodbye, see that I am alone, the threshold has been broken, and the last one to go to my house is Zhao Qing." ”

"It's better to say than to sing, and I also told the matchmaker to think about it, but that night he sneaked into my house and wanted to plot against me, I beat him half to death, and their family came to my house to cry and shout, saying that if they don't lose money, they will report to the official, and I will lose money."

Yu Nian's brows were furrowed deeply, for what happened to Tian Yao, and for himself to believe the rumors.

"You are a victim of this, why ......"

Tian Yao sighed: "I'm a brother, and they gave me two choices at that time, one was to lose money, and the other was to marry his family." Of course, I didn't want to marry that kind of gangster, and then the village chiefs of both villages were there, and after the two parties discussed, I lost the money. ”

"But I didn't expect the Zhao family to be so shameless, take my money, and still speak ill of me everywhere outside."

Yu Nian's face was very complicated, he thought that he was also a gullible rumor, and he felt even more guilty when he thought of Tian Yao's kindness to him for so long: "Why didn't you clarify?" ”

Tian Yao said indifferently: "Why do you want to clarify? People who know me don't trust me, and people who believe in me don't have anything to do with me, so why should I bother to clarify this. ”

Yu Nian looked at him, and the impact in his heart was huge, he was such a brother, he was sincere, frank, and looking at himself through rumors, he was like the darkest person.

"I'm sorry."

His sudden apology made Tian Yao confused, but he still replied sincerely: "It's okay." ”

Tian Yao carried the person to the courtyard and put it down, put a blanket on his lap, and he sorted out the firewood he had picked up earlier.

Some firewood didn't have time to be put into the room last night, it was damp at this time, Tian Yao was moving them to the dry ground next to them, these two days should be sunny, and it is better to dry them than to rot them.

"It's about to be winter, I have to buy winter clothes, I originally wanted to pankang this year, but the money is not enough, it's too late, if you come to pankang next summer, it will be cheaper."

"Why?" Yu Nian sorted out the herbs in his utility room in his hands, and brought them back from Haruka Maeda, and they didn't classify them, and now they were in a mess, and Yu Nian didn't have anything to do all day, just classified them little by little.

"Who is okay with nothing to do in the summer? That's not going to die of heat. Tian Yao said, "In the summer, the craftsmen who pan kang can't get any work, so the price is naturally low." ”

"Don't you still have more than ten taels of silver, isn't it enough?" Yu Nian asked.

"That silver is for you......" Tian Yao said and quickly covered his mouth, "Anyway, I gave it to you last time, you don't want it, you don't care where my money goes." ”

The corners of Yu Nian's mouth rose slightly: "Okay, I don't care." ”

Tian Yao nodded with satisfaction: "Eat the pot today, right?" I harvest all the vegetables in the field, it's cold, and nothing grows in the field, I have to go to the town to buy some winter storage, Huailing Town is frighteningly cold in winter, basically in bed. ”

After finishing speaking, he went to look at Yu Nian's leg again: "I don't know about winter." Will your legs be very difficult, and when spring begins, let's go and treat your legs, right? ”

"It's okay if you can feel the pain, but if you don't feel it at all, it's really useless."

"Bah, don't crow's mouth, it's going to be fine, I'll go outside to find work in the spring, why can I always make money to show you my legs." Tian Yao finished packing up the firewood, stood up and walked around the vegetable field.

There are not many kinds of vegetables in his garden, only a few cabbages, and the radish tassels have withered and yellowed, but the radishes under them are white and fat. After harvesting the vegetables, he leveled the small vegetable field, took the copper plate, went to Uncle Qi's house in the village to make tofu, bought some tofu skin, went to the butcher's house to cut a pound of meat, and came back to cut the meat slices.

There were still some wild boar bones left, and he salted them with coarse salt according to the method that his little father said, and then hung them in the kitchen, and then washed them and put them in the pot, and in a short time the soup in the pot became snow-white again.

He rummaged through the storage room and found out the pot used by his family in the past, the little father had to eat this the most, in the past, they had to shake the pu fan to eat the pot in the summer, after they died, Tian Yao was alone, and he never touched this pot again.

The snow-white pork bone broth is bubbling and bubbling, and the tofu is boiled into a honeycomb shape, which is full of soup, and the slightly salty taste makes people's appetite move.

Tian Yao mixed another sauce for the two, lacking some salty dishes, and it tasted better when they were in the sauce.

"I learned from my little daddy, and our family used to eat this a lot." Tian Yao remembered that when he was young, his little father's dipping bowl was red, and he never gave him a taste, and after his little father died, he never saw the red thing again.

"It tastes good." Yu Nian rarely praised his cooking skills.

"If you like it, you will eat it often." Tian Yao smiled, "I'll take care of the vegetable garden again at the beginning of spring, and eat a variety of vegetables, what do you like?" ”

"Coriander."

Tian Yao's face turned into a bun: "No, this can't be!" ”