Pick up a daughter-in-law to farm

Chapter 106 The world in chaos

Aunt Zhang glanced at the sister-in-law intentionally and said, "You despise Daniel for being too poor, but what if your daughter is good?"Marriage is a good marriage, married to the town, but now she is a widow without children, where is your son-in-law?

Not wanting to upset Sangyue, Aunt Zhang deliberately said: "It will be fine in the future. Now that his brothers and sisters are grown up, and each of them has a family, the days will only get better and better. Do you have something to do with his aunt? How about Come in and sit for a while."

To tell the truth, Zhang Zhushi doesn't really despise Zhuang Daniu for being poor, but is jealous that he married a woman who is better-looking and smarter than his own daughter, so he can't help feeling sour.

Hearing Mrs. Zhang change the topic, Zhang Zhushi seemed to recall the reason for coming: "Auntie, I won't sit down anymore. Seeing that I am old, I forget things when I lose my mind. I will come here now." I just want to ask, will your family Duhu go to town tomorrow."

"What's wrong? You want to bring something?"

Zhang Zhushi sighed: "Hey, what should I bring? I have oil and salt at home, and there is nothing to take with me. It's only a few days until the thirteenth day of August. If he goes to the town, ask him to give it to me. Bring some yellow paper up."

On the thirteenth day of the eighth month, every family needs to prepare some ghost money for offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods. Aunt Zhang couldn't help asking: "Didn't you buy a lot last time when you went to town? Why do you want it again?"

Zhang Zhu's face darkened when he heard the words: "It was enough, but I had a dream last night for some reason. My son-in-law said in the dream that he had no money. I wondered if he missed me." Is this the mother-in-law to burn some paper money for him? If you don’t want to go, forget it, I’ll make a share and burn it for him.”

Aunt Zhang heard about this and thought about it: "I have prepared quite a bit, so I'll give you half the knife, it's a kindness."

Zhang Zhushi's face immediately brightened: "Okay, that relationship is great, and I feel more at ease in this way."

The two women walked into the house while Sang Yue was digesting what they said: Didn't they say that July and a half is the Ghost Festival?Why does the world make Ghost Festival August [-]th?What is the allusion to this?

In the previous life, August [-]th was the Reunion Festival, but in this life, August [-]th is the Ghost Festival. Could it be that ghosts are reunited first, and then people are reunited?
Damn, what kind of world is this?

Sang Yue asked because she didn't dare to ask why, she was afraid that people would treat her as a monster.

When she was making complaints, Mrs. Zhang had already come out. After seeing off Mrs. Zhang Zhu, she sat down and said: "Sangyue, is your yellow paper ready?"

Sang Yue shook her head: "I...I really don't know."

Thinking that Zhuang Daniu has been dealing with various matters in the family, Aunt Zhang said understandingly: "It's normal if you don't know, that kid Daniu is a careful person, he should be ready. In the past, he went to his father on Qingming He never forgot when the paper was burned on the grave."

"Auntie, why does Da Niu only burn paper on his grave? Doesn't it mean that his mother is also dead? Then why doesn't he burn paper?"

Seeing Sang Yue's question, Aunt Zhang was stunned and sighed softly: "It's a long story...Daniu's mother...you may not know that you haven't lived a day since you bought it... Fortunately, Daniel Dad is a kind-hearted person, and she let her make trouble. It's just that since Daniu's father disappeared, Daniu was young and didn't earn much, and life in this family became more and more difficult...

A woman took him by the hand and made him swear that he would build a house for his brothers and marry a wife.At that time, Daniu agreed for his mother's peace of mind.But on this day, when he came back from collecting firewood on the mountain, Erniu and Dahua cried and said that his mother had disappeared... At that time, people in the whole village searched everywhere, and finally found her mother by the deepest water of Qingshan River. a pair of shoes…”

Following Aunt Zhang's voice, Sang Yue was shocked: "Could it be that she committed suicide by throwing herself into the river?"

Aunt Zhang shook her head and said with a wry smile: "Who knows? No one is alive, no one is dead. Some people say that she must have drowned in the river. There is a deep whirlpool in the deep pool. Many people have fallen into it before. I’ve seen corpses floating up. Some people said that she might have left with someone, and she couldn’t stand the hard life in the mountains...Anyway, she’s been walking for more than ten years, and no one in the village has seen her again in these years.”

No wonder when Zhuang Daniu mentioned his mother, his expression was very strange.

Sang Yue couldn't help but ask the bottom line: "Then Da Niu can't be sure if his mother is dead, can he?"

Aunt Zhang looked gloomy: "Maybe. In fact, the big guy doesn't know what to do, but no one will ask. The child Daniu has been sad all these years. He thinks his mother can abandon him, but she shouldn't. Younger brother and younger sister. He buried his mother’s pair of shoes next to his father’s grave, but no monument was erected, and he never worshiped them. But after so many years, people in the village also believe that his mother was dead gone."

Sang Yue didn't think about whether Zhuang Daniu's mother died or left, but she felt sad for Zhuang Daniu in her heart.

For a child who had just lost his beloved father and was abandoned by his mother, how difficult it was for him to bring up his younger siblings alone, there is no need to say anything.

Mrs. Zhang is a good elder. Seeing that Sang Yue didn't know how to needle and thread, she taught her how to measure clothes, how to draw threads, and how to cut them. Although she couldn't get on the road yet, Sang Yue remembered the general things in her heart.

At noon, Aunt Zhang cooked some grain porridge, and Sangyue wanted to make steamed buns, so she went from kneading, raising, and making molds to steaming buns.A bowl of amaranth and a bowl of long cow horn, the three of them simply ate something.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Sang Yue felt a little tired, so she said goodbye to Mrs. Zhang and went home.

It was still early, so she lay down on the pit and squinted for a while, but found that she couldn't sleep, so she got up.

Sit down and continue to test the needles, but Sangyue found that making clothes by hand is much more difficult than doing business. Seeing that it was getting late, she had to put it down first.

After stewing the rice, she took out the wax gourd given by Aunt Zhang and cut it into pieces, put it in a crock pot with oil and salt sauce, put half a bowl of pheasant soup stewed by Zhuang Daniu in the morning, and made a can of stuffed winter melon with sauce .

Thinking about making too many dishes at night, she couldn't finish it. Seeing that there was still a big bowl of chicken, Sang Yue found out the half-dried shiitake mushrooms from the sun a few days ago, stir-fried them, and added chicken nuggets to cook together.

The food is cooked, the sun is setting, and the sky is full of sunset.

As the saying goes: the morning glow does not go out, the sunset glow travels thousands of miles, it seems that tomorrow will be another good weather.

Sang Yue was about to go to the door to see if Zhuang Daniu was back, but there was a knock on the door...

(End of this chapter)