The women took their leave after drinking the paper ash water, leaving only gray-haired women and girls in the courtyard. And the big-bellied woman in the wing room never made any big moves, except for one or two low moans from time to time.

At first glance, this is an ordinary farmhouse courtyard. The elderly woman took her granddaughter to do the daily farm work, rummaging through the autumn vegetables and gossiping.

The old woman kept her hands in her hands and whispered to the girl: "Xiaozhu'er, you are more vigilant these days, I am afraid that Ah Niu's daughter-in-law will not last long, it should be launched in a few days." ”

The girl Xiaozhu'er glanced at the wing room quickly, answered yes, and asked softly: "Sister-in-law Niu, I'm afraid it's difficult to survive the birth, right?

The old woman immediately stopped her hand that was turning over Akina, stood up and glared at the girl with her eyes, and looked at her until she didn't even know where to put her hands and feet, her face turned red, and she knelt on the ground with a thud, and hung her head on her chest and did not dare to raise it.

The weather is cold in late autumn, and it is not pleasant to kneel on this cold and hard blue brick floor. Such a severe punishment was provoked by an ordinary sentence, which immediately aroused the curiosity and attention of the two monks who were addicted to voyeurism.

The woman didn't care for the girl at all, and sneered, "I'm not dead yet, why are you crying and kneeling?" she pointed to the hall, "Kneel, go and kneel in front of the ancestors." ”

The girl sobbed and did not dare to refute at all, but really got up slowly, walked into the hall and kowtowed three times in a row, and continued to kneel on the ground in a straight manner.

The two monks changed their bodies and hid again closer to the hall, only then did they see that there were seven or eight tablets on the table inside, but they did not expect that the layout of the house here was so strange, and they actually offered these in the hall.

I only heard the woman inside lowering her voice and admonishing Xiao Zhu'er, "I see that you are blinded by lard, and you have forgotten everything you have always taught." What can be saved or not? Ah Niu's daughter-in-law's whole body together is not as important as the fetus in her belly, and she knows that even if she earns her life, she will give birth to this fetus. What nonsense are you talking about here?"

Village husbands and foolish women often value sons over daughters, and there are many who value their heirs more than the lives of their daughters-in-law. Although Ye Zhiqiu and Zhu Chengbi didn't look down on this style, they were not interested in paying more attention to it, and after glancing at each other, they planned not to waste the world here, but at this time, they heard the woman continue: "You are the next pond digger, why can't you even think about this reason now." ”

Zhu Chengbi rolled his eyes and asked quietly, "What sugar man?"

Ye Zhiqiu hesitated and didn't answer, while the woman continued to reprimand the girl, "Raising the pond is for harvesting." Otherwise, it will take so much effort and food to raise a mature pond in Xintang, is it fun to raise it?"

The girl was sobbing and choking, but she was a little unconvinced, and her voice was as thin as a gossamer: "But when I dug the pond, I hurt their lives, didn't I raise them in vain?"

The woman snorted and stretched out her hand to fight, but she couldn't help it, "You know what a fart!" Usually the pond diggers should be more careful, so that the ripe pond can be used for a few more years and keep raising good lotus roots. But if it is a coincidence, which of the ancestral tombs emitted green smoke, so that the small pond grew a lotus king, the lotus root is bigger than the ripe pond, and it is already the blessing of the ancestors to be able to survive until full-term, how can you expect to dig it out without hurting the root of the ripe pond?"

Xiao Zhu'er was afraid that she was extremely afraid, but she still couldn't help asking, "Did the ugly baby's mother also die like this in the past?"

The woman sneered, "He wants to!"

Her face was full of disdain, but she still explained: "At that time, there had been no lotus root in the village for many years, and everyone thought it was sure to be her appearance, and even I almost lost my eyes, but I didn't expect that what was born in the end was such an ugly and stupid thing, which was useless at all." So she didn't die immediately, but it took a few years to run out of gas. ”

At this time, her patience was almost at the limit, and she whispered: "You don't learn the rules of the pond digger on weekdays, and you mess with the short-lived little ghost of the ugly baby every day." Let me see you two talking, and see if I don't break his leg and pull out his tongue!"