Happy pastoral sturdy little lady

Chapter 36 sisters love
Uncle Wu was very moved, and at the same time felt very ashamed, nana said: "That's enough, the land should not exceed one and a half acres." He wanted to retreat, but he didn't even have a copper coin in his pocket. Helping out at Da Ya's house, I have more than 200 Wen, but I still have too much money to buy land.Uncle Wu blushed and accepted Da Ya's money: "Then Uncle Wu has the audacity to accept it. Uncle Wu will make money and pay you back as soon as possible, thank you Da Ya."

After breakfast, Uncle Wu went to hire a day laborer.

Da Ya went to the kitchen to bake more than a dozen egg pancakes.

When Aunt Wu heard that the three brothers and sisters were going to dig wild chrysanthemums, peppercorns, and wolfberries in the back mountain, she hurriedly stopped her: "Erya is still young, so don't go, stay at home with Camellia. Cloud and vanilla, let's go too!"

Da Ya complied with a smile, making up her mind to pay them wages.

Time passed quickly, and five days passed in a blink of an eye.

Rao Shouqin and Liu Xiangchun returned to Shanqian Village and pushed aside the bamboo fence, thinking they had gone to the wrong place.

The changes at home are really big!I saw a tall sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the middle of the yard, two pomegranate trees in front of the main house, and a peach tree, plum tree, pear tree and the banana tree mentioned by Da Ya in the four corners of the courtyard.Wild chrysanthemums were planted in a patchwork pattern in the gaps between the bamboo bushes, and a circle of unnamed miscellaneous trees was also planted around the hedge.

All around the courtyard, except for the small drying area, there is actually a green lawn.In the middle of the lawn, beautiful flowers were planted.Looking around, there is a winding corridor paved with white river pebbles, starting from the courtyard gate, passing the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, and coming to the entrance of the main house.It forks from the osmanthus tree again, and two stick out, one leads to the stove, and the other leads to the woodshed.

Looking at it this way, the whole grade has been raised immediately, with a lot of vitality and elegance.At first glance, the two of them had the feeling of walking into a rich family. The yard of the richest landlord's house in ten miles and eight towns did not feel so good!
And on the left hand side, I don't know when, there is another family.The courtyard wall is astonishingly the same as my own house, it is also composed of bamboo groves and hedges, but the house is not as good as my own house, it is actually built of bamboo!
Xiang Xi was also stunned, and it took him a while to come back to his senses, and he rushed into the house, shouting while running: "Sister, I'm back!" Why only call "Sister"?This is because he misses his eldest sister most in his heart.

However, after shouting for a long time, no one answered.

Xiangxi stopped in her tracks, looked back at her parents, a little panicked: "Mother, did you go the wrong way? Is this our home?"

Liu Xiangchun hesitated for a moment, and before he could answer, a small head poked over from behind the hedge: "Father, mother, second brother, I am here, at Uncle Fifth's house!"

Xiang Xi exclaimed: "What? Erya, what would you say? The bamboo house next door belongs to Uncle Wu's?!"

Erya bypassed the main entrance and rushed over.

Rao Shouzhuo was so anxious that his eyes were red, he grabbed Er Ya and asked, "Why does your fifth uncle live next door? Why do you live in a bamboo house? Did something happen to the old house after Dad left?"

"Yes, Father! Uncle Wu's family was kicked out as well. They didn't receive anything. They were worse than my family back then. They didn't even give a grain of grain. The money to buy that piece of wasteland was given by my elder sister!" Erya told her parents the reason of the incident in detail, with an indignant look on her face.

"It's too much!" Hearing this, Rao Shouqin couldn't help being extremely shocked, squatting on the ground, hugging his head in excruciating pain.Tears, slipping silently, wet the cobblestones under my feet.

Liu Xiangchun sighed: "I'm tired all the way, let's go back to the house and have something to eat, let's have some tea!" The journey was full of dust, she was tired and hungry, and she wanted to take a good bath.

Erya smiled very cutely and said: "Father, mother, second brother, there are pancakes and berries in the cupboard, I'll go and bring them out, and then I'll help you boil the bath water!"

"Hey, good boy, he's becoming more and more well-behaved and sensible!" Liu Xiangchun smiled gratifiedly.

Xiang Xi anxiously asked: "Where did the eldest brother and sister go?"

Erya grinned and said, "I went to the mountains to pick goji berries."

"What?" Xiang Xi was puzzled.

"Godberry is a kind of medicinal material, and it can also be used to make soup. The elder sister said that the picking period can be until October. There are so many in the mountains, and there are a lot of them. If you pick them and sell them in drugstores, you can earn a lot of money. ! Except for the camellia, the fifth uncle's family also went to pick wolfberries! The elder sister said, if you work harder, in autumn, the fifth uncle's house may have money to build a house!"

Erya smiled, her face full of pride and pride.

"Really? That's good, that's good!" Rao Shouqin was so excited that he burst into tears. He was really happy for the family of the fifth brother, and he was also very pleased that he had such a good daughter as Da Ya.

Having a good way to make money, not hiding it privately, and being willing to give it out selflessly, this is not a small attitude.

Good boy, she deserves to be his daughter. In the future, he will love her and Erya well, and stop being so patriarchal!
Who said a daughter is a loser?A kind and capable daughter is much better than those misbehaving and prodigal sons!There is a small stream three feet wide between Uncle Wu's house and Da Ya's house.The stream is clear and sweet, not much different from the mountain spring water in the deep mountains, only with a little more impurities.

In the evening, Da Ya and Xiang Dong came back, bringing back two baskets of red goji berries.As usual, there was a layer of tender green wild vegetables on the top of the basket.This is due to the need for confidentiality work, there is no way, the people in the village are too curious.If you see goji berries, you must break the casserole and ask the end. If everyone goes to pick goji berries, the money for the house of the fifth uncle's family in autumn will be lost.

Thinking of picking goji berries and selling them for money, Da Ya made a secret plan in her heart: in autumn, both my family and my fifth uncle's house will build green brick and tile houses!
After dinner, the family brought up the fact that the Fifth Uncle’s family didn’t even get a grain of food. Rao Shouqin, while feeling sad for the Fifth Brother, tried his best to defend the people in the old house: “Oh, your Fifth Uncle’s family really did I have suffered a great loss, but I believe that the people in your old house have no evil intentions, they are just confused for a while. In the future, those who should be filial should still be filial, and I dare not be jealous of your grandparents, second aunt and third aunt. If you can't write two characters, you are all a family, let's forget about the past!"

It is better to say this to him or himself than to tell his wife and children.His heart is extremely entangled and contradictory. Intellectually, he also knows that the people in the old house behave inappropriately and hatefully; but emotionally, he is really hard to let go, and he can't calmly complain about the people who hate the old house. .

Those people are all his close relatives!
The big girl was very speechless about the wavering and capriciousness of the cheap father. She seriously warned her father: "Father, don't be so stubborn. As the saying goes, fathers are kind and sons are filial. Filial piety, parents don’t know how to be kind and generous, so how can children respect them from the bottom of their hearts?. And filial piety is also very particular. If parents behave inappropriately, but children are blindly obedient, then It's called foolish filial piety! It's also connivance, as time goes by, parents' behavior will become more and more inappropriate, it's harming them, not true filial piety!"

"..." Rao Shouqin was dumbfounded.

After a while, he asked in a trembling voice: "Girl, where did you hear about these truths?"

Da Ya replied with certainty: "Daughter heard a word or two from the shopkeeper of Moxiangzhai, and later read it in a book. It is what the saint said!"

"Ah? The shopkeeper said it? In the book? Or the sage?" Rao Shouqin was in a very complicated mood. He didn't know a lot of Chinese characters, and he regarded the words in the book as an imperial decree from the bottom of his heart.I sincerely believe that the words in the book are absolutely true.

Since then, Rao Shouqin's attitude towards the people in the old house has fundamentally changed.

To the old man and the old lady, apart from making excessive demands, they are basically very respectful and obedient.However, for other people, it is not so polite.He also wanted to understand, no matter what, he was also the eldest brother.It is unreasonable for a big brother to be scolded and lectured by his younger brother and younger sister-in-law, and there is no need to be obedient to his younger brother and his first daughter-in-law.

Liu Xiangchun, who came back from her natal family, changed her original soft and gentle personality under the conscious or unintentional guidance of her daughter Daya, becoming gentle, kind and strong.Many times, even Bai's confrontation with her will inevitably lead to defeat.

The white lotus-like Liu Xiangchun who endured humiliation and was bullied in the past has disappeared, as if it was just a legend.This kind of transformation benefited her a lot in the second half of her life. After many years, she didn't suffer a big loss in front of her powerful daughter-in-law.Da Ya suggested: "Starting today, all of our family except Er Ya will go out to pick wolfberries."

Rao Shouqin said weakly, "I'd better make a pen holder and a bookmark."

Da Ya sighed helplessly: "Father, I went to the city yesterday and found that many bookstores and small stalls had pen holders and bookmarks for sale! Moreover, the price is very cheap, and the sales of Moxiangzhai's pen holders and bookmarks have dropped a lot. Yes, the price has also dropped by half, which is only two or three pennies more expensive than the price we gave Moxiangzhai. The shopkeeper said that the pen holder and bookmark each need a maximum of [-] pieces a month, and asked to make it more delicate, and the purchase price It will also be reduced by [-]%."

Xiang Xi was very distressed: "Daddy, there is so much money missing, and only a few, can you still take this job?"

"Of course I have to pick it up. No matter how few mosquitoes there are, they are still meat, right?" Rao Shouqin replied without hesitation. After a good life, his mentality has not changed at all, and he is still as simple and diligent as when he was penniless.

A decision was made, the family was in a good mood and slept soundly at night.

The first ray of sunlight in the morning penetrated the window paper and reflected on Da Ya's face, and she woke up from her sleep.Subconsciously looking at the small bed at the side, the quilt was neatly folded, Erya got up at some point.

Too bad, she was the last one to get up again today!
Da Ya scratched her hair in frustration, quickly put on her clothes, shoes and socks, and combed her hair.At this time, Erya's tender and clear voice came in from outside the door: "Elder Sister, it's dawn, let's have breakfast!"

"Hey, just come!" Da Ya blushed with shame.

There is no way, she just can't get up, and she can't wake up without waiting for the sun to come out every day.It's not like the family used to get up early. When there is no separation, even Erya has to get up at dawn to clean the yard, help mother cook pig food and so on.It wasn't that the mother was cruel, she was really forced to have no choice, Mrs. Pan didn't like the people in Dafang, and under the instigation of Mrs. Bai and Meng, she kept pushing the work on Dafang's family, even the young ones Erya didn't let go either.

Walking out of the door, I suddenly found that the house was quiet. On the stone table under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the middle of the courtyard, there were only two sets of bowls and chopsticks, a pot of porridge, a steamer of steamed buns, and two small dishes for appetizers.

Er Ya quickly served two bowls of porridge, and eagerly urged: "Eldest sister, hurry up to wash your face and mouth, father, mother, elder brother and second elder brother went to the mountains half an hour ago, and there are only two of us left at home." In a while, Camellia will be here, if you see that the elder sister hasn't washed, that's not good! A child is not strict with his mouth, if he accidentally speaks out, it will ruin the elder sister's reputation!"

(End of this chapter)