Yoshida Mii

Chapter 7
Aunt Qiuxia was stunned for a moment, the eldest son has always been good-natured, sensible and steady, and loves his younger brother, why did he say that his younger brother is not good today.

"What's wrong with this kid today?" Aunt Qiuxia smiled, and was just about to say something more, when there was a burst of footsteps and chatter and laughter coming from the yard, Aunt Qiuxia came out of the kitchen to see that it was Gonggong Lin The old man, her husband Lin Fu and the youngest son Lin Quan are back.

"Are you back? Hurry up and wash up, the food is ready." Aunt Qiuxia said.

Lin Quan ran into the kitchen bouncing around, saw that his brother was still buried in the pot, threw himself on his back, giggled and said, "Brother, I went to the field with my father and grandfather just now, and saw a gray rabbit , almost caught it!"

Lin Quan is less than ten years old. He has a tiger head and a tiger brain. He is lively and cute. He is the baby of the Lin family. In the past, Lin Shi would definitely coax him a few words. Small, ignorant, totally incompatible with Dongbao.

"How old are you, and you still run wildly all day long." Lin Shi said, reaching out to wipe the mud marks on his younger brother's face, "Look at Dong Bao, who is not much older than you, and knows how to help auntie alive."

Lin Quan pouted, and just wanted to be dissatisfied with acting like a baby with his brother, then he grinned, "Brother, have you seen Sister Dongbao? I heard the children in the village say that Sister Dongbao is back this morning. I told my mother that she still didn't believe it." Lie!"

Lin Shi nodded. At this meeting, Aunt Qiuxia came into the kitchen to serve dinner, so she stopped talking.

This meeting was not a busy time for farming. Both old man Lin and Lin Fu were honest people, and they didn't like to wander around like the idlers in the village. They had the habit of taking a nap at noon after eating.Before going to sleep, Aunt Qiuxia told Lin Fu about her chatter with her eldest son Lin Shi at noon, and finally said with a smile: "Look at this kid, it's not in vain for Dong Bao to call him Brother Da Shi, it hurts Dong Bao so much." , I think Quan Zi is playful, so I can't marry Dong Bao!"

"What? You want Quanzi to marry Dongbao?" Lin Fu was taken aback, "Don't talk nonsense, Dongbao's mother wants to marry Dongbao to the Shan family in the town!" The village is so big , Sesame big things can be spread rumors, if there is something unpleasant to spread, I am afraid that Li will be unhappy and ruin the friendship between the two families for so many years.

Aunt Qiuxia quickly said: "I know Dongbao's mother's thoughts, that's all she said, if Dongbao didn't make an engagement with the Shan family, it would be great if she said she would give us a whole son. The two children are about the same age. I despise my younger brother for getting up, and he speaks strangely."

Lin Fu chuckled, knowing a son is like a father, thinking of his handsome, gentle and taciturn elder son, how can he despise his younger brother, the son is his daughter-in-law. OK?But the sister-in-law of the Song family wanted to marry Dong Bao to the Shan family, so it was useless for them to fall in love with Dong Bao.When his son is older, he will settle the marriage and find a virtuous and capable wife, and he will not think about anything else.

Lin Fu lifted up the quilt on his body, yawned sleepily, and said, "That child Dongbao is a pain in the ass, Dashi and Quanzi should take care of him more in the future."

"It's up to you!" Aunt Qiuxia smiled, and wanted to chat with her husband again, but when she heard her husband's snoring, she shook her head with a smile, and fell asleep leaning on her husband's arm.

When Dong Bao and Mrs. Li arrived home, Mrs. Huang and Mr. Song had already arrived. Mr. Song was silently squatting in the yard, basking in the sun and smoking a pipe. If it wasn't for the smog around him, he would hardly have noticed him.Huang, who was sitting under the eaves picking beans, looked dissatisfied, but it was not easy to get angry in front of Dashi. When Dashi left, she stretched her face and said, "What are you doing? I didn't come back until noon." ?”

Dong Bao answered first: "Grandma, my mother went to wash the clothes for my second aunt. Look, she washed such a big pot."

Mrs. Huang glanced at the silent west wing room, curled her lips, and muttered in a low voice, "Let's see what kind of golden eggs can be hatched!" But he didn't say anything, and only ordered with his eyebrows raised: "Hurry up when you get back!" Cooking, the whole family is hungry, so you don't see any work?"

Mrs. Li hurriedly said respectfully: "Okay, I'll cook here." After saying that, he went to dry the clothes in the basin first, and Dong Bao hurried over to help.

Huang stomped her feet and scolded: "It takes two of you to do more work! I told you to cook and force you to stop you, right? You can't die of laziness, you bear mother-in-law, and the daughter you gave birth to is also a slob!"

Li Shi is a docile and cowardly person, but this does not mean that she can tolerate her only child being scolded, and she bite the bullet and defended: "Mother, Dongbao is still young, and can't reach the bamboo pole."

This sound stabbed the hornet's nest thoroughly, and Huang threw away the dustpan containing beans in his hand, jumped up and cursed: "What are you talking about? How dare you talk stubbornly when you say you are lazy? You have no conscience, you prodigal bitch." My poor eldest son has just died, and this Xiong mother-in-law doesn't care about her parents-in-law! Let me tell you, only those shameless low-spirited women want to go to the second house! They will go to hell and be punished by the little ghosts in the Temple of Yama Dismembering the body will lead to a terrible death! Our old Song family is not so shameless to kill the women below..."

Mrs. Li stood there in embarrassment, the spitting star who was scolded by Mrs. Huang wished to smash her head to the ground, the conscience of heaven and earth, with Dongbao here, she never thought of a widow remarrying, but Mrs. Huang is a talkative one. The worse the scolding, the more she felt ashamed.

Dong Bao couldn't listen anymore, and with a "bang", he smashed the mallet for pounding clothes on the iron pot with a rotten bottom thrown in the yard, and stared at Huang.

Mrs. Huang was taken aback by the loud noise, and when she came back to her senses, she became furious, pointed at Dongbao and cursed, "You damn girl, how dare you scare me? You fierce tiger girl, our old Song family The bad luck of several lifetimes is on you!"

"Grandma, do you hate my father so much?" Dong Bao wiped her face, interrupted Huang's chattering and scolding, and asked, God knows how much she wanted to pick up a stick and rush over to fight this old woman, but she still couldn't bear it. Come down, in this era when filial piety is the heaven, if she fights with her grandma, no matter how reasonable she is, she will become unreasonable, the whole Tagouji can't tolerate her, maybe the village will try her this A rebellious and unfilial granddaughter.

Dong Bao gritted his teeth and continued: "As soon as he died, you called his wife a rotten child, and his daughter a fierce tiger girl, so what happened to him? Is my father your own? If not, I Just go with my mother."

Huang was stunned, when did this girl become so sharp-tongued?

Li's hands trembled in fright, and she put her arms around Dongbao and covered her mouth to keep her from saying a word.

Dong Bao pulled Li Shi's hand, and secretly scratched Li Shi's palm with his nails, "Grandma, my father is buried not far from here, he can hear everything you scold." Dong Bao continued He said unhurriedly, "Everyone in the village knows that my father is a filial son. Even if my father is a ghost, he is also filial to you. You must feel uncomfortable when you scold him like this. If I ask you at night, why are you talking to me?" Dad said?"

Thinking of her eldest son who died early, Huang's eyes were red, and the curse words rolled back and forth several times before swallowing them back.The eldest son who had poured all his heart and soul into his cultivation died in his prime, and before he left behind, the most painful thing in his heart was her mother.

Mrs. Huang wanted to scold Dong Bao and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Li, two daring mothers and daughters, for daring to smack her mouth, she was so tired of it!But Dong Bao's words touched her heart again. The eldest son is the most filial and obedient. He just died, and his soul is still floating on the Tagouji. You can see what happened here, that's all, just look at your son On the face of it, please forgive Mrs. Li for once.

"Why are you still standing there in a daze? You're dead! Don't you have any work in your eyes? Hurry up and finish drying your clothes and go cook!" Huang said with her eyes wide open. Although her tone was still fierce, she was not as swearing as before.

Li was stunned for a moment, she never thought that her mother-in-law, who was always unreasonable and vicious, would let them go so easily. She thought that Dong Bao had offended her mother-in-law this time, so she might be scolded for something.

Dong Bao pulled Li Shi who was stunned there, and said in a low voice: "Mother, hurry up and dry the clothes, grandpa and grandma are hungry, waiting for dinner."

Only then did Li come back to her senses, bowed her head and Dong Bao deftly hung up a basin of clothes, then ran to the vegetable cellar with low eyebrows, picked up two Chinese cabbages, and fetched water and noodles to wash the vegetables.

Now that spring is just beginning, the green vegetables in the vegetable field have not grown yet, and the edible vegetables are the Chinese cabbage stored in the vegetable cellar in winter. If there are day lilies to eat in winter, but it will be warmer this time, there will be no The day lily is here, it is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested.

The Song family has a lot of land, and they support the youngest Song Bai to study in the town, so the food is not as good as other families.For example, the Lin family eats a bowl of vegetables per person at noon, and the Song family does not eat like this. They eat a lot of plain pancakes and waste food. The Song family mostly eats soup noodles at noon. Even soup can eat noodles. Eat less.

Li's noodle rolling skills are excellent. A pot of sorghum noodles mixed with a small amount of white flour, after kneading for a while, it becomes a yellow-yellow dough. Rolling the rolling pin with a thick arm back and forth, the dough becomes thin and round after a while. Fold the large noodles into a palm width, and cut them into thin noodles with a large kitchen knife.The cabbage is also washed, cut and placed on the chopping board.

Dong Bao carried a large bag of corn stalks from the firewood pile outside into the stove to help his mother light the fire.When it was time to work, the Erfang family hid in the west wing without making a sound, expecting them to come to work, and the whole family skipped lunch.

When the smoke in the kitchen room rose, the door of the west wing opened with a creak. Second Aunt Song Lu was wearing a water-red embroidered jacket, and her hair was combed neatly with pomade. Holding his waist, he walked to the bamboo pole where the clothes were dried in the yard, looked at the clothes one by one, then walked to the door of the kitchen, leaned against the door frame of the kitchen, and said, "Sister-in-law, why didn't I wash those blue trousers clean? There is a big black patch on it!"

(End of this chapter)