The story of the struggle of the poor girl who crossed

Chapter 95 Family Love
Liang Gaoshan lowered his voice: "Okay, you just need to know about it yourself, and don't let the eldest and second daughter know. The child's mouth is not strict, and maybe he will slip it at any time. When the time comes, your parents and sister-in-law The second sister-in-law might hide the child!"

Maochun nodded vigorously: "Brother, please don't worry, I won't say anything, not even the big girl's mother!" He couldn't help crying with joy when he had the opportunity to take his two daughters out of the sea of ​​suffering. Buddha.

In the past few days before the Chinese New Year, Luhua Bay is particularly lively.

Almost every household in the village killed a pig.

Liang Gaoshan went to several shops and bought back a hundred catties of meat.

The courtyard was covered with white snow, and Mai Xiang took her younger siblings under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the courtyard, forming a thick and big snowdrift.Then, they dug a hole in the snowdrift, put the three small jars filled with meat into the snow hole, and buried them with snow.In this way, just like a Tingren's refrigerator, as long as the snow does not melt, the meat will not go bad even if it is left for three months.

The meat buried in the snowdrift weighed about [-] catties, and a jar weighed about [-] catties.For the rest of the meat, five catties were eliminated that day, and the rest were made into braised pork.The seasoning of stewed meat, Maixiang hides a lot in the space.When she returned home this time, she brought back a big bag and told her family that she bought it in Hongye City.

Huang Lian was very happy, and said in a child's language: "Wow, this day is really happy, and there will be meat every day from now on!"

Mai Xiang stretched out her hand and rubbed his little head: "Don't worry, as long as you study hard and get admitted as a scholar like the second brother, the eldest sister can guarantee that you will have meat every day in the future. Not only will there be pork to eat, but also If you want to eat fish, you can eat fish, if you want to eat lamb, you can eat lamb!"

Huang Lian's eyes lit up immediately, and he asked happily: "Really?"

Mai Xiang nodded: "Really, when did eldest sister lie to you?"

Huang Lian had a bitter face: "But, being a scholar is very difficult!"

Mai Xiang: "You are only six years old now, as long as you study hard with your second brother from now on, then, I can guarantee that when you are 12 years old, you will pass the scholar exam! Of course, the premise is , you must study hard, study hard, and concentrate on studying!"

Huang Lian nodded vigorously: "Well, big sister, I will study hard, study hard, and I will never let you down!"

Mai Xiang laughed: "Well, that's good. If this is the case, the eldest sister will like it! Your second brother is the case leader, and his knowledge is very good. If you don't understand anything, you can ask your second brother. Such a good condition , there are no children from other people's families, so you must not waste resources!"

Ban Xia: "That's right, I'm your second brother, you can ask any questions you want, I promise I'll tell you everything! I don't have that kind of patience with other people, so you have to Cherish such good conditions!"

Fu Ling: "That's right, fifth brother, now I have learned a lot of cultural knowledge from my second brother. Not to mention the enlightenment textbooks, even the "Book of Songs", now I can understand a lot! Those agricultural books bought by the eldest sister , I can understand a lot! I am a girl, and you are a boy, so you must not be worse than Fourth Sister!"

Huang Lian raised his small fist: "I will work hard and try to surpass the fourth sister in a year, and I will definitely not be a hukou!"

The term "settlement element" was naturally learned from Mai Xiang.The younger brothers and sisters have a lot of rhetoric, which they all learned from Mai Xiang.Mai Xiang was not instilled intentionally, but unconsciously, instilled in several younger siblings.

Liang Gaoshan asked Mai Xiang: "After the Chinese New Year, what gift do you want to give General Zhao and the governor?"

Mai Xiang thought for a while, and then said: "Why don't we just give you braised pork! But if that's the case, our family doesn't seem to have enough braised pork! Why don't we go buy some more pork?"

Liang Gaoshan: "That's fine. Tomorrow, the village head's house will kill two pigs. He won't be able to buy so much for himself. He will have to sell some in the nearby villages. In this way, I will go to the village head's house and talk to him. Order half a fan of pork, do you like it?"

Mai Xiang: "Well, that's good, half a leaf is enough! It's enough for a family to send a twenty catties of stewed pork!"

As soon as he said go, Liang Gaoshan stood up and went to find the village chief.

Fahrenheit fawned over Mai Xiang and said, "Mai Xiang, mother fried a lot of oil dice, when the time comes, you can also give some to General Zhao and the governor!"

Mai Xiang nodded: "Okay, I see."

A short sentence, like that, I don't want to say much at all.

Fahrenheit couldn't help feeling sour.

Now, in this family, Mai Xiang talks and laughs with everyone.Only to her, very cold.She doesn't take the initiative to talk to Mai Xiang, and Mai Xiang usually doesn't open her mouth, that is, when they meet each other, she calls her mother, and then she stops talking.

No, this daughter is so promising now, she must win back Mai Xiang's heart.In the future, who knows if the daughter-in-law is good, if the daughter-in-law is not good enough, she still thinks that this daughter will support her more!If the daughter-in-law knew, Mai Xiang would not want to pay attention to her as a mother at all, and she didn't know how to train her as a mother-in-law.

No, this daughter's heart must be saved!
So, during the few days when Mai Xiang was at home, she followed Mai Xiang every day, trying to please her in every possible way.That cautious look, that eagerness to treat Mai Xiang as an ancestor, made Mai Xiang sick enough.With her like this, how would others think of Mai Xiang?For sure, she will be considered a disobedient, unconscionable white-eyed wolf and so on.

Finally, on New Year's Eve, Mai Xiang's patience reached its limit.

While eating, Fahrenheit kept adding vegetables to Mai Xiang's bowl.That’s not to mention, when Huang Lian went to Jia Mai Xiang for the dish of spicy chicken, Fahrenheit hit his hand with chopsticks, and sternly reprimanded; It's your elder sister's favorite dish. You're really ignorant after eating one piece after another, and you want to be beaten!"

Huang Lian was very wronged: "Mom, I only ate three yuan. This is such a big pot. Grandma killed two chickens. Eldest sister can't finish it all by herself!"

Fahrenheit tapped Huang Lian's hand several times with chopsticks: "You debt collector, you dare to talk back to me, but I'm your mother! Your eldest sister can't finish eating this chicken today, so I won't save it for tomorrow. Your eldest sister will continue to eat?"

Hearing this, Mai Xiang finally couldn't bear it any longer, stood up abruptly, and glared at Fahrenheit: "Have you said enough? Are you such a mother? This is New Year's Eve, and the fifth brother is only six years old. How much does he want?" What's wrong with eating a few pieces of chicken? Don't give me food, I don't want to eat your saliva, you can keep it for yourself!"

After finishing speaking, he picked up the full vegetable bowl in front of him and put it in front of Fahrenheit.He said to Chang again: "Grandma, I'm full, eat slowly!"

As he spoke, he got up from his seat.

Chang couldn't help sighing, and gave Hua a hard look: "Just do it, if one day, your children don't recognize you as a mother, you will have a good life!"

Liang Gaoshan was so angry that his eyes were red, and he yelled at Hua Shi: "If you continue to do this, one day, I will divorce you!"

Hearing what he said, Fahrenheit was frightened immediately, but he couldn't help but said wronged: "I just want to win back Mai Xiang's heart and please her. I'm a mother, let it go." Put on airs to curry favor with her, do you think it's easy for me?"

Liang Gaoshan sneered: "It's too late, it's too late! Mai Xiang's heart, you can't take it back! In the future, you just need to keep your duty and live an honest life. If this is the case, if my daughter sees you, she will return to you." I can call you a mother. In front of outsiders, give you a bit of face as a mother, and you will be satisfied! Don’t even think about the rest! Otherwise, if your daughter sees you in the future, if she doesn’t even have a mother Shout out, just wait and see!"

Alas, the way his wife and daughter are now is really a headache for him.However, he also knew very well that Mai Xiang actually endured and endured.If it wasn't for his and Ban Xia's sake, Mai Xiang would have turned against her mother long ago.It is not easy for Mai Xiang to endure until this time.

When I was in Qinghe County, I heard that my family was classified as a military household, and my wife scolded Mai Xiang like that, no one could stand it.When he came to the northwest, Mai Xiang went to the military camp, but he was still willing to return to this home, so he would be thankful.

Mai Xiang is a child who can't bear to be wronged.She doesn't care if others wronged her, but her heart must be very hurt when her family humiliates her like that.

Mai Xiang went to her bedroom, closed the door, and entered the space.

The apple tree in the space is full of fruits, and it is impossible to pick them all.She reached out to pick a basket, washed it in the stream of the space, sat on the stone slab by the stream for a while, and then left the space with the basket.

At this time, the family members had already packed the dining table and were sitting around the dining table chatting.Mai Xiang put the basket on the table: "This is the apple that I asked someone to buy in Hongye City, you guys have a taste. You just have dinner, wait a while before eating, it's not good to eat fruit after dinner!"

Huang Lian nodded: "Well, my eldest sister told me before, I still remember. I'll eat after playing for a while, this apple is big and red, smells delicious, it makes my mouth water!"

After hearing his childish words, Mai Xiang couldn't help laughing.

The dignified atmosphere suddenly became lighter.

Fahrenheit didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, and he didn't dare to please Mai Xiang anymore.

This night finally passed safely and happily.

Early the next morning, Mai Xiang took pinellia and licorice, got into the carriage, and went to Zaozigou.The people in Zaozigou are members of the clan, so visiting is a must.People in this era have a deep family concept.A person who is abandoned by the family will not be recognized by the society and will be cast aside by the world.

It is necessary to have a good relationship with the people of Zaozigou, especially the old patriarch's family.

This time to Zaozigou, Mai Xiang brought five two-jin pork, two baskets of apples, 25 jin of cornmeal, 25 jin of rice, and a basket of rice cakes.She planned to give these things to the old patriarch, the village chief, and the three elders.

A family has two catties of pork, five apples, five catties of cornmeal, five catties of rice, and a pack of rice cakes.The rice cakes in the basket are wrapped in five packs with the dried taro and lotus leaves collected earlier.

Such a gift is a very heavy gift.

People in Zaozigou are very poor now, and they have to be very economical in food and use.Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until the beginning of spring, and I will stop.

Everyone in the family is very happy to receive the gift.

In addition, Mai Xiang secretly gave the old patriarch a red envelope: "Grandpa, I only gave you this red envelope, and I didn't give it to the village chiefs. Here is 50 taels of silver. You take it and keep it as a spare."

The eyes of the old patriarch couldn't help but turn red: "Okay, I'll take it, thank you, Mai Xiang! Our old Liang family, if it wasn't for your help, many people would have starved to death!"

(End of this chapter)