"Xiao Si, where is the eldest brother?" Lin Ru saw Lin Yuliang holding the vegetarian under the banyan tree and playing with the son of Liu's widow, Lin Xiaoli and the Xiaoguang from the house of Liu's carpenter. Xiao Ming was talking happily, and she didn't overshadow her sister's voice at all. When I saw the backpack and bamboo basket under the corridor, I knew that my elder brother was back.
It was a little rainy in the morning and the chickens didn’t come out. Now it’s clear, so I’m going to let them go for a walk. Li Yanniang put down the pig grass and went to the backyard to put the chickens out to find food and clean the backyard. When I came back, I saw Lin Ru scraping the mud on the root surface with bamboo slices and putting it in a bamboo sieve. It should be dried, not dipped in water, as it would easily break; wild vegetables are classified, gray vegetables are knocked out, shepherd's purse is sorted, and purslane is placed separately, and it will be washed by the stream in a while; yellow lotus and pig weed are piled up by the wall; half-dried firewood is leaning against the wall; bamboo shoots are moved into the stove, sour pears are placed next to them without moving.
The sun sets in the west, the sunset after the rain is very clean, and the afterglow caresses the earth. Li Yanniang washed the yellow lotus roots, pressed them upside down on the drying rack, and placed them on the edge of the rack with a cloth bag. "What did you pick up by brother? Why did you hang it on the rack?" Lin Ru saw Li Yanniang washing her roots.
Next door, the sound of Wan and his sister-in-law Liang were heard, and the sound of scolding the child was heard. It was a daily event, and it was not surprising that they would not separate the family every day.
The two put all the wild vegetables in the bamboo basket and took them to the stream. From a distance, they saw Lin Dazhu and Zhang walking across the wooden bridge on the stream and heading to the stream. "Da Niu, Xiu Niu, are you washing the sickle? Did Xiaoqiu cook at home?"
"Hey, come back." Lin Daniu's wife Zhang Xiuniang is Zhang's cousin, washing the sickle and carrying the basket. "Brother-in-law, sister, you're back so late. I'll wash some food. Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxiang dug on the mountain this afternoon, and there are some mushrooms. They are going to stew with the meat they brought back yesterday. You can come to your house for dinner later and call my nephews." Zhang Xiuniang said politely.
"No need, the family probably has been cooked." Zhang and Zhang Xiuniang are close to each other and they also help each other on weekdays.
Lin Erniu walked home. His wife Hu was washing wild vegetables and mushrooms. When she heard that her sister-in-law would rather call her outsider than her, she was so angry that she shook the water hard. She snorted coldly and muttered, "Eat inside and out."
Lin Ersheng's wife Liu and Hu were in good condition, "That's right, my younger brother, my sister-in-law doesn't call me, but I'm just calling me an outsider. I'm just too honest. Aunt Yu is so old, you pay so much pension money to the old people, and you may not be able to get into anyone's mouth. You're stupid."
"Nothing is right, I won't talk about these. Yushu Mother, I'll wash it, I'll give it to you here." Hu blushed and quickly opened up the topic with guilt. He usually told Liu about how much money and how much grain he paid, but in fact he was yelling. He agreed to thirty cents a month and ten kilograms of rice, but he only gave it to you two or three months ago, and he had never paid it all.
Mrs. Hu hurried home with a bamboo basket, "Oh, Niang Yan, you are here to wash vegetables with your cousin, why didn't you go back to your second uncle's house? I heard that your second uncle has come to the door to invite you several times. What's the use of raising you so much? I don't know how to be grateful. As I said, it's not easy for your second uncle to raise you, how can you be ungrateful?" As he said that, he looked at Zhang Daya sarcastically, "It's probably because some people don't let you go back. If you want to get a labor force for free, maybe just look at that little dowry. You, don't be deceived by others." After that, he twisted his invisible waist and left.
Li Yanniang was so ashamed that she dared not look up and refute. Lin Ru was so angry that she didn't know what to say.
pulled Li Yanniang to Zhang quickly, "Dad, Mom." Seeing Lin Daniu beside him, "Hello uncle, hello aunt."
Li Yanniang called out, "Uncle, aunt." He also greeted several people next to him one by one, before squatting down to start washing vegetables.
Lin Ru pulled Zhang's sleeves and looked at Li Yanniang with red eyes, and said angrily, "Mom, you don't know that we met Aunt Hu just now, and the speech was so ugly. You said that you held your cousin and refused to let her go back to your second uncle's house, and you also said that your cousin was ungrateful."
After hearing this, Zhang threw down his hoe, rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to fight with Hu. Li Yanniang said, "Auntie, I don't blame others for thinking like this. It's because I didn't do it well before. Forget it, I don't have to be angry with myself."
Lin Dazhu bent down to wash the hoe. When he saw his wife protecting Yan Niang, he felt sweet.
"Sister, my sister-in-law is also a person who has no idea about her. It is right that Yan Niang doesn't have the same knowledge as her. Who doesn’t know what life you lived at Lin Laoer’s house? She went to the house to curry favor with Miao and wanted to find a way to send her Xiaohuo to the town. Forget it, don’t be angry, sister. "Zhang Xiuniang comforted Zhang and others and said to her husband, "You should also tell your brother that Lin Lao Er's eldest son is not on the right path, so don't push him into the pit. It's just that, and I still have to count on it when I'm old. Seeing that the family treats Sister Wen like a slave, how can they treat their own mother? "
" Well, OK. "Lin Daniu is relatively dull and doesn't like to talk. His wife does things properly. Usually his wife says that he will do whatever she wants. Then he carries two hoes, picks up the dishes his wife has washed, and goes back first. Zhang Xiuniang and Zhang mutter to Zhang slowly walk back.
"Cough, cough..." Lin Dazhu suppressed, not wanting to cough out, afraid that his family would worry. Li Yanniang felt uncomfortable when she heard it. "Uncle, it's not a way to cough like this. Otherwise, if you'd better ask for leave tomorrow and let the doctor take a look, it's not a way to drag it. "
" It's okay, I've been taking two or three days off, and Zhao Xiucai of the school is too busy alone. "Lin Dazhu looked at Li Yanniang lovingly.
With Lin Dazhu's help, Lin Ru and Li Yanniang picked up a lot of river shrimps and harvested three small fish two fingers wide. Looking at Yanniang who was finally laughing like a child, Lin Dazhu also smiled happily.
Lin Yushu was already filled with water in the water tank, and the bamboo shoots were cut according to Li Yanniang's previous cut. Six sour pears were peeled and placed in a bowl. Lin Ru steamed the rice first. Li Yanniang used another pot to cook the pig food. Zhang fed the pigs and cleaned it.
Li Yanniang was already busy in the kitchen. Li Yanniang enjoyed working alone, so she rushed Lin Ru to rest. After the meal was ready, she directly put the pears. Steam on low heat, the bamboo shoots soaked in the morning were refilled with the leftovers in the morning, the purslane cleared heat and detoxified, the fish was fried and made with a vegetable soup, Lin Dazhu was just right, and the river shrimps were dried without oil or salt. Because Lin Yushu was going back to Changbai Academy tomorrow, Zhang was a little reluctant to leave at the dinner table tonight.
After the eldest brother left, Lin Erniu and Hu were quarreled with him, and Hu blamed Zhang Xiuniang for not caring about his relatives and being humble. He had just finished scolding by his husband, so he didn't dare to go too far, so he could only scold her to death. Looking at his son's big mouth and his daughter who bowed his head and said nothing, "What aunt, just calling outsiders is not called his nephew or niece. He eats oily mouth, and even the broth is not yours, and he will just provoke other couples' relationships. "
" Mom, have you paid the pension money for your uncle's family? "Looking at the chattering mother, Lin Xiaohuo put down the bowl and asked Mrs. Hu after wiping her mouth.
'Pa' Lin Erniu's fire just down, he rushed up, put down his chopsticks, and walked under the eaves to blow the wind. After the eldest son was born, Mrs. Hu quarreled to separate the family, and took his son to die without dividing the family. Her mother didn't want her son to make things difficult for her, so she separated the family and lived with the eldest family. She paid thirty cents a month and ten kilograms of rice on time in the first few months. After that, she asked her wife to take back her parents' home to subsidize her brother-in-law. She quarreled a lot about this, and finally went out to find a job and saved money for several months in private. Later, she knew that she was quarreling and quarreling back to her parents' home, and she never handed over again. The sister-in-law was generous and didn't care, but she felt ashamed and apologized. Lin Erniu had red eyes and held her hands in the corner.
