The tough wife has room to farm

Chapter 131
The news of the Shen family's recruitment quickly spread to several nearby villages. The villagers of Nanhe village felt a little guilty because they gathered around the Shen family's gate to ask for money, but they didn't find them. The villagers of Beihe village and other villages did. Not a lot.

Everything in the house is watched by Aunt Xiumei and Aunt Hao.

Those who can read read the contract by themselves, and those who can't read read it to others, and they recruit a lot of people.

The children still went to study with Mr. Chang, and Wen Nuan and his wife drove the carriage with their things early in the morning, and took Mrs. Wang to the village where Gou's family was located.

Along the way, Shen Pingxi drove the car, Nuan Nuan accompanied her and changed into new clothes, chatting with the timid Wang Shi to distract her attention.

Now Wang is looking forward to, afraid and worried, and the warmth can be felt.

"Mother, I found my aunt. If she has time, she will come to our house to stay for a while. Our house has a lot of vacant rooms inside and out. Bring my aunt's younger generation and let's have a good time."

This is speaking in the direction of relief, Wang understands that his daughter-in-law is reassuring her, pats Wen Nuan's little hand holding his arm, smiles and nods, but his eyes are looking hard at the end of the road.

The village where Gou's family lives is called Yinshanjian. It is not far in a straight line, but it has to cross a big mountain.

If you take a detour, it will take you thirty or forty miles to go around the entire mountain, and it is on the shady side of the mountain, a flat place at the foot of the mountain.

I don't know if it's due to feng shui, but the village over there is also guarding the mountain, but it is very poor. The living standard of the whole village is not as good as that of Nanhe Village and Beihe Village.

It may be because it is farther away from the town, and the cultivated land is not as wide as here because of the mountainous terrain.

Otherwise, there would be no family that was too poor to marry a daughter-in-law, and would have to exchange relatives in other villages in order to get their children to marry.

When the sun rose above their heads, they could see the scope of the village. There were people tending the fields on the ridge, a small road that could only accommodate a car and a horse, and in front of it was a village with mostly stone houses and a yin mountain stream.

Because he had never been to Gou's house before, Shen Pingxi stopped the car before entering the village and asked an uncle sitting on the side of the road for directions.

"Uncle, how can I get to the Gou's house in Yinshan Mountain?"

The big tree leaning against the tree with a hoe pushed up the bamboo hat on his head, glanced at Shen Pingxi and the carriage in the middle of the road, tremblingly stretched out his calloused palm, and shook it.

Shen Pingxi was taken aback for a moment, not wanting to understand what this meant.

On the contrary, Nuan Nuan understood it, turned around and jumped off the carriage, touched two copper coins from his arms, but did not hand them over, just squeezed them in his hands, and asked again.

"Uncle, I want to know the location and situation of Gou's house in Yinshan Mountain."

Since the old man asks for the way, he directly asks for money, so Nuannuan is not polite, and if he takes out two copper coins, he will get the most benefit. I didn't expect the villagers in Yinshanjian to have such economic acumen, and she didn't have much disgust in her heart. It's better that way, but you don't owe favors, and you get both money and goods.

Wang and Shen Pingxi looked at Wen Nuan Zai and pointed in a direction, and said, "The house in the fourth row is the innermost one."

Nuannuan handed over a copper coin.

The old man spoke very slowly, with a strong accent, and Wen Nuan listened carefully, "An old man from the Gou family lives with the younger generation, how can he have a good life, you seem to belong to a rich family, just ask for debts. , There is nothing valuable in his house."

When Wang heard this, she almost shed tears, just an old man?What about your own sister?Didn't you get over it, and the person is no longer there?

In this era, the general age is around seventy, especially in places where the living conditions are not very good, all relying on physical resistance. The old patriarch Wen was an example before, living more than 70 years old is considered a long life, so he became the patriarch of the Wen family. .

Nuannuan also gave the old man the remaining copper coins, and sat back in the carriage, "Mother, don't think about it, the inside and outside are not far away, let's go and have a look."

Shen Ping raised his whip to the west and continued to beat the horse, and the carriage headed towards Yinshanjian Village.

Fortunately, he had already asked about the location, so Shen Pingxi directly parked the carriage at the location of the fourth row of houses, and turned in. The road was too narrow for the car to enter.

A group of children who were not as tall as the wheels of the cart were wearing tattered and ill-fitting clothes around the carriage to see what was new. The older children and adults could not see it. They should be busy making a living at this time and not at home.

Picking up the things, Nuan Nuan supported Mrs. Wang, and the three of them headed towards the innermost Gou's house.

There is also a reason why the village here is called Yinshanjian. This big mountain is lined with trees and gentle on the other side, but it is completely opposite on the other side. Most of them are dangerous landforms with exposed rocks.

Most of the houses in the village are built by moving free stones from the mountains and mixing them with yellow mud and straw.

This kind of house is poor in heat preservation, and its safety is also worrying. It can be seen that life in the village is really not well-off.

Walking to the innermost small courtyard and seeing the situation inside, Nuan couldn't help frowning slightly. It is said that farmers will raise a few chickens and ducks at home. They don't need food, but they can catch some weeds and chop them up, and they can also lay eggs to supplement the family.

But this Gou's courtyard is empty and dilapidated, it doesn't look like other people's houses can see any movement.

Holding the open fence door, Mrs. Wang called inside with a trembling voice, "Wang Erni, is Wang Erni at home?"

The two Wang sisters were valued in their natal family. Because they were girls, the older one was called Dani, and the younger one was called Erni. They only gave the only boy a name, and they were used to being the most disrespectful.

"Ahem, cough, who is it!"

There was a coughing sound from inside the room, but I couldn't recognize the sound. I asked, and the voice was an old man. It took a long time for a small head to stick out and take a look outside.

"Master, it's someone I don't know, not my aunt!"

"The visitor is a guest, come in, the old man has trouble with his legs and feet."

The people in the room yelled, the door was pulled open from the inside, Wen Nuan stepped forward and looked into the room, only thought that the old man was half sitting on the kang, and standing by the door was a dirty little man with trousers showing his ankles. girl.

The child was about four or five years old, and he opened the doorknob with his small hands on his toes.

Blinking his eyes and looking at the three strangers standing outside the door, he asked timidly, "Are you looking for my grandma?"

Mrs. Wang walked into the hut first with warmth, and explained her identity, "I am Wang Erni's eldest sister. I haven't contacted her for many years. I just found her home after asking. May I ask who you are?"

"Is it Er Nizi's natal family? I am Gou Shuan's father, and Er Ni is my daughter-in-law... Come and sit in the room."

There is nothing in this room except for a few small broken wooden benches. There is only a straw curtain on the bed that divides the big kang that occupies half of the room into three sections. It seems that there should be three generations of a family.

A small low table was placed on the ground, and several large bowls contained cool porridge and pancakes mixed with corn dregs and wild vegetables.

The situation of this family is even worse than when Wen Nuan came to Shen's house.

(End of this chapter)