Farmer's happy event

Chapter 8 It's ours and we'll take it away
Mrs. Li straightened her face and said: "I know this is your dowry, but now that you are married, our mother will naturally take care of things. This is what my mother gave to my family. If you want to go back, go to your mother to ask for it." Go, anyway, I..."

"Bah!" Yang spat in one gulp, Lianzi said hello in her heart, Lianzi actually said such a thing, this really refreshed Lianzi's understanding of the best.

Then I heard Yang say: "Give you a needle, you are really a stick! My dowry is naturally my thing, and I have no reason to occupy my daughter-in-law's dowry. If you hadn't teased my mother, she would have taken my things." Give it to you? You black-hearted woman would like to say that black is white, but it's a pity that I'm not dead yet!"

Lianzi and Guzi pressed the corner of the table firmly, Maizi was not to be outdone, and stared at them fiercely, her cheeks that had just been rouged became more and more rosy.

Mrs. Li was ashamed by Mrs. Yang's words for a while, and she couldn't help becoming angry from embarrassment: "You, who are you scolding? Is there anyone like you? You, how dare you disrespect your elder sister-in-law!" She said and called Mrs. Shen loudly.

"Hmph, disrespect?" Yang sneered, "You also deserve my respect!"

Apart from being stingy enough to make people speechless, Shen doesn't have any special hobbies.She has a cold temper, and she doesn't like to intervene too much in the affairs of her son and daughter-in-law.As long as it's not a waste of things, or just happens to be in a bad mood, she usually won't chatter endlessly.

It's not that she didn't hear the quarrel between the two daughters-in-law. At this time, she heard Mrs. Li calling her, and frowned. Looking at the sunset, she reluctantly put down the work in her hand, got up and walked out, thinking I happened to go to Mrs. Yang to get the money for selling eggs.

"What's the matter? What are you yelling about again? Why don't you think that others make less jokes?" Shen's face was displeased, and she just slapped the two of them.

"Grandma, why did you give my table to the aunt?" Lianzi knew in her heart that this matter was definitely not Shen's idea, but she was very dissatisfied at first, and secondly, she could ask Shen to explain and talk about the reasons. , not in vain wronged Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Shen glanced at Lianzi and didn't answer immediately. Instead, she looked at Mrs. Yang and said, "Hurry up and bring the money for selling the eggs." After finishing speaking, she said, "Your sister-in-law said that the wheat is big, so there should be a dressing table, which happens to be in your room." If you have one idle, let her use it first. Anyway, Maizi is about to leave the house, and when she finds her in-laws, the table is vacant, so it will not be too late for Guzi to use it."

Lianzi smiled smugly when she heard the words, look, she knew that Mrs. Li must have instigated it.Shen Shi is also really awesome, she didn't let her down at all, the truth couldn't be more true.

On the other hand, Li Shi, there were a few twitches on her face, she must be feeling uncomfortable.

"Mother, Maizi is eleven, and my Guzi will be ten years old after the new year. We are not young, and we should have a dressing table. Could it be that Maizi is a girl or a granddaughter, but our Guzi is not?" Yang said She won't give in at all, she can be wronged for her husband and children, but she will never let her children suffer a little bit of wronged.As for the money from selling eggs, one yard is worth one yard, and she doesn't keep a cent of it privately.

Although Yang's temper is fiery, Shen still didn't expect her to contradict directly.

"Then you move back." Shen said something succinctly, then turned around, leaving Li with a look of astonishment.

"Oh, mother, didn't you say at noon—"

Before she finished speaking, she was glared at by Mrs. Chen, and then closed her mouth.

After taking two steps, Shen turned around and said to Yang, "Hurry up and send the money for selling the eggs."

Yang didn't respond, went up to pick up the table and left, Maizi was still protecting her tightly, but after a while, she was snatched back by Yang's mother and daughter.

Lianzi was very satisfied in her heart, she smiled mockingly at Maizi, then she and Guzi each carried a corner of the table, followed Yang out of Li's house.She didn't like Maizi from the beginning, and this girl took herself too seriously.

Yang's mother and daughter carried the table back to their home, and when they entered the door, they saw Liu Jingren squatting on the open space by the door, smoking a dry cigarette.

Yang Shi was not very angry with him, and said to him angrily: "Next time, you'd better give away all our belongings!"

Liu Jingren knew that Yang Shi was angry, so he just smiled honestly and said nothing.

After setting up the small table, which was obtained after a lot of twists and turns, Mrs. Yang threaded the [-]-something Wen she got from selling eggs with thread.After putting it on, she thought for a while and said, "No, just give me some." Then she got up and opened the layers of clothes, took out the money from lotus seeds selling medicinal materials from one of the old clothes, and counted ten He was tall, and he wore it together with the money he had just worn.

"Mother," Lianzi called out, "Why should we give them the money we have earned so hard?"

Mrs. Yang sighed and said: "After all, one family lives together, and now they have eaten their last meal, so if they can support each other, support each other." She paused and said: "Besides, you have filled the yard a few days ago. I took it out this time and didn't bring it back, saying that I didn't sell it for money, and I will never let you do it again in the future."

"En", Lianzi nodded, but it was still Yang's thoughtfulness.What's more, they only took out ten coins, and they still have a lot.

"Oh, it's just that I came here in a hurry this time, so I didn't buy any food for your sisters." Yang looked at the lotus seeds and millet with a bit of regret on his face, "When I go to Jishang next time, I will bring you four sisters together. go."

Lianzi agreed, thinking that she must dig some more medicinal materials. With this road, it is estimated that she will not be frozen to death and starved to death this winter.

But thinking about Dr. Xu's intention to accept her as an apprentice, Lianzi couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

After this incident, it was sunny for several days, Lianzi and Huzi went to the mountain to dig a lot of medicinal materials and spread them in their yard to dry.

The last time she took ten Wen from lotus seeds for selling medicinal materials, although Shen didn't say anything, she severely reprimanded Li for interfering with lotus seeds.

Lianzi was in a good mood for a while, not only took Huzi, but also took her three sisters up the mountain to collect medicine.In this way, more and more medicines were collected.It's just because it's the middle of winter, and there is a shortage of medicinal materials suitable for digging, so after searching, there are only medicinal materials for honeysuckle such as kudzu root and isatid root, and even herb is less and less.

With subsidies for selling eggs and medicinal materials, the family lived on porridge and ground peanut shells for a few days.

Just when the days were getting harder, the sky suddenly changed.

In the afternoon of this day, Lianzi sat in the yard with her three older sisters hungry, watching her sewing around Yang.Because of hunger, the children were not in the mood to talk.

Lianzi stared at Yang's rough hands, watching her thread a needle, but what flashed before her eyes was the shiny roast chicken and the fragrant rice.

"If you don't have rice, even sorghum noodles and steamed buns are fine."Lianzi thought to herself, at this moment she really wanted to exchange all the money she earned for food, but after thinking about it, for the sake of the future, she should bear it first.

"Mother, I'm hungry." The seven-year-old Lizi couldn't bear it any longer, and tugged at one of Yang's sleeves.

Yang Shi couldn't bear it any longer when she heard the words, and burst into tears.The few mouthfuls of gruel she ate in the morning had already been digested, and she was also so hungry that she didn't have any strength in her body.

In the past few days, the porridge in everyone's bowl has become less and less.The Yang family has many children, and the two adults alone can't take care of them. Even my aunt Chunzi and uncle Liu Jinglin often share the food in their bowls with the Lianzi sisters.

Yang could hardly bear to look up at her daughter's hungry face.

After a while, she stretched out her hand with great difficulty, caressed Li Zi's face tremblingly, and said with tears in her eyes: "Tomorrow mother will let you have enough food."

She knew that if she died of starvation, no amount of money would be of any use, so she planned to go to the town tomorrow to buy some food for the child by falsely claiming to go back to her mother's house.At the beginning, he didn't hand over all the money earned by Lianzi to Shen's, just to guard against this day.Her family has many children, so she has to prepare for the worst.

Not long after Yang's words fell, the weather that was fine just now suddenly turned gloomy, and the sky turned leaden in a blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Lianzi had already forgotten her hunger, and hurriedly collected the precious medicinal herbs she had dried in the yard, wrapped them in oilcloth, and carefully stored them in a dry place inside the house.

Suddenly a cold wind blew up, and Mrs. Yang hurriedly let the children into the house, and said to herself, "It looks like it's going to snow."

"Oh," she sighed, "God will not give people a way to survive."

After Yang finished packing the things in the yard, flakes of snow like goose feathers floated down. In less than an hour, the ground was already covered with a vast expanse of whiteness.

Because of the heavy snow, the simple dinner was even simpler than before.

Yang took out the porridge that only covered the bottom of the basin from her arms, filled half a bowl for each child, and asked them to eat while it was hot.It was so cold that she didn't let the children out to eat.

Until night, the heavy snow still showed no signs of stopping.

Lianzi woke up from hunger. Hearing the slight breathing of her parents and sisters in the house and the sound of snowflakes falling outside the window, an unparalleled sense of loneliness suddenly came to her heart.

It has been several months since she came to this strange world. With her parents and sister who love her, she feels very warm in her heart.Although she knew that she had to work hard to survive, and she really did it seriously, but at this moment, she still couldn't get rid of the boundless feeling of loneliness no matter how hard she tried.

When Lianzi fell asleep again in a drowsy state, the heavy snow outside the window was still drifting.

Early the next morning, Yang Shi and Liu Jingren got up early.Because she slept late last night, Lianzi didn't wake up early.

"Lianzi, wake up, wake up quickly."

Lianzi was in a drowsy sleep when she was suddenly awakened by Guzi. She rubbed her barely open eyes and asked, "What happened?"

Gu Zi looked flustered and said anxiously, "Third Uncle is ill, let's go and see."

Third uncle?Liu Jinglin?

(End of this chapter)