Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 37

Li Xin is a married daughter, so it's not easy to meddle in the affairs of her mother's family, just listen to it.But Mrs. Liu wanted her daughter to share her opinion, and after complaining, she asked Li Xin, "Xin'er, tell me, what's going on with your mother?"

Li Xin touched his head, then bent down to wash the vegetable leaves, and said in a daze, "Mother asked me how I knew, and I haven't dealt with Uncle's family for a long time..."

Mrs. Liu patted her thigh, "What I'm saying is, they didn't say anything when you got married. They came to eat and drink and then went back. You're still a big brother, and you made such a joke!"

Li Xin smiled and didn't answer her mother's words.

While adding firewood to the stove, Jiang said: "Golden nanmu is not an ordinary wood. I remember my father told me that there is a legend about this golden nanmu!"

"Oh? What legend?" Mrs. Zhang asked with interest.

"I heard that there used to be a wealthy family in the capital, and the owner of that family was usually kind and generous. One day he dreamed that he went to heaven and saw a fairy boy in heaven. The fairy boy told him that he had done good deeds all his life and accumulated merit. If there is a good coffin that can help him ascend to heaven after death, then he can be ranked among the immortals and become a member of the heaven."

Jiang shi said with a smile, Zhang shi had an expression of asking her to continue.Although Li Xin doesn't believe in gods and Buddhas very much, he should listen to the stories with great interest.

"Then what then?" Liu urged.

"Then the man woke up. After he woke up, he asked people to find out what kind of coffin is a good coffin. He went to the monk to calculate it, and he also asked for the plan to divination, but he didn't get a definite answer. Some people said that it should be inlaid with gold and jade. Some people said that it should be made of sandalwood with fragrance, and some people said it should be made of jade. That person gradually gave up, thinking that he might not get a good coffin. Who knows that I heard that we have a special coffin in Yizhou by chance? The golden nanmu is the best wood in the world, so I hurriedly sent people to Yizhou to buy a coffin made of golden nanmu, and prepared to send it to the capital."

"Then maybe the coffin made of golden nanmu is the good coffin that Xiantong said." Mrs. Liu nodded.

Mrs. Jiang smiled, "This story, the odd one is behind it. The good man sent a butler from his mansion to Yizhou. After buying a golden nanmu coffin, he put a bowl of roasted meat inside the coffin and covered it tightly. After walking on the road for nearly a month, when we arrived at the capital, the good man watched the coffin open, and in the end, guess what happened?"

At the critical moment, the Jiang family actually played tricks, and the Zhang family laughed and scolded: "You have learned a lot, so hurry up and talk!"

Jiang said with a smile: "When the coffin lid was opened, the bowl of cooked meat was still inside. When a good man brought out the meat, he could still smell the aroma. If he ate it with chopsticks, the meat was not bad yet!"

"Wow, is it true or not?" Mrs. Zhang opened her eyes slightly, "Is the golden nanmu coffin really like what you said?"

"I also heard it from my father when I was a child. They all said it was a legend, and there is no way to verify it."

Jiang smacked his lips, added more firewood, looked up at the pot, and said, "Grandmother, the water is about to rise."

"Hey!" Mrs. Liu responded, and said in a still unsatisfied way: "It seems that the good man must have used that golden nanmu coffin later, and then became a fairy in the fairy class!"

Mrs. Zhang said: "I don't know if Grandma knows this story, if she knows this story too, maybe she wants to be in the fairy class!"

"She has a good idea, and I haven't seen her do any good deeds. It is her good fortune to have a good pregnancy in the next life, and she is also a god..." Liu groaned twice, rubbing the dough into the pot, seeing Li Xin Without saying a word, he wondered, "Xin'er, what are you thinking?"

"No..." Li Xin put the vegetable leaves on the Shau Kei to drain, "I just thought that the golden nanmu is only available in our Yizhou, and there is that kind of wood in the forest in the village. It's okay to cut one down. But It is indeed time-consuming and labor-intensive to build a coffin. It seems that the millet is about to be threshed, and the father is not good enough to end the game. There are only the eldest brother and the second younger brother, how can you be so busy?"

"That's why I said it shouldn't happen!" Mrs. Liu was angry when she talked about the wishful thinking of Li Houbo's family, "When your grandma dies, your uncle will arrange the funeral, and you will be responsible for the gift money and so on." Uncle holds it in his hand, can you share it with us? Let us make the coffin, so your father will suffer after all."

Thinking about it, I still can't get angry, "Isn't it because your father is honest and easy to bully, and he will step on your father for everything!"

Li Xin smiled lightly and said: "Mother, why don't you tell uncle that our family really can't spare the manpower to make this coffin, and it doesn't take much effort to cut down a golden nan tree. It's better to let uncle make the coffin. Let’s do it at home, anyway, my uncle’s family has four cousins, so if there are more people, it will be faster to do things.”

Liu's eyes lit up, "That's right! Why can't you use their family members to block him?" He said happily to Li Xin, "Xin'er is still smart!"

Li Xin lowered his head and smiled, and said in a low voice, "It wasn't my idea, that's what it was all about."

"Yes, that's the truth!"

Mrs. Liu smiled, and her movements became faster and faster. She quickly put the dough in the basin out of the pot, went to mix the pig food, and ordered Mrs. Zhang to look into the pot.

Mrs. Zhang sat down next to Mrs. Jiang, heard Shanzi's immature question and Guan Wen's answer in the yard outside, and smiled at Li Xin: "Brother-in-law looks scary, but he is quite patient. Shanzi is so annoying to ask this question." Ask that, he can still deal with him with patience."

"That's right, when my brother-in-law came to welcome the bride, I was shocked when I saw him." Jiang Shi also said, "But now that I'm familiar with him, I don't think he is so scary anymore, even Shanzi is not afraid of him." gone."

"He has a cold face and a warm heart, you'll know it after getting along for a long time."

Li Xin pushed the bottom of the pot with a spatula, fearing that the dough would stick, and said to Jiang: "Put less firewood, if the heat is too high, it may be boiled."

The female relatives are busy with the evening meal here, chatting and laughing very harmoniously, but the atmosphere on the male side is relatively dignified.

Li Houzhong called Li Dalang and Li Erlang over, and discussed with his two sons what his elder brother said about breaking the coffin.Li Dalang frowned upon hearing this.

"Father, we will be threshing rice soon. If you agree to what the uncle's family said, how can my second brother and I find time?"

"That is to say, father, how many of them can't make their own coffins? We haven't received much favor from grandma, so there's no need to work hard for her to make a coffin."

Li Erlang threw away the small hoe for digging vegetables, and said in a rough voice with his hips crossed.Li Houzhong glared at him, "That's your grandma, your father and my mother! How can I refuse her request? Don't make your father and I be called unfilial!"

Li Erlang stared angrily, and sneered, "Okay, if you agree, go and chop the tree and make the coffin yourself, don't drag me and elder brother to suffer together with you!"

"you!"

Li Houzhong was so aroused by Li Erlang, his emotions suddenly became agitated, and he pointed at Li Erlang with a trembling hand, "Is this how you talk to your father and me? Do you want to treat me like this when I grow old?"

"Father! This is too serious!"

Li Dalang pulled Li Erlang behind him, winked at the red-eyed Li Erlang, and waited for him to calm down before saying: "Father, mother said that there is something at home that you need to discuss with the big guys, so you agree." Is it possible that you have to go back on your word again?"

Li Houzhong was speechless for a moment, looked at Shan Zi who shrank behind Guan Wen, and then at Guan Wen who had been silent all this time, but asked Guan Wen, "What did you say?"

How could Guan Wen come up with an idea on this matter?But the old father-in-law couldn't pretend he didn't hear the question, so after thinking about it, he said, "I think...it's better to discuss this matter with the mother-in-law, if the father-in-law agrees to it himself, he won't have to complain. "

Li Dalang immediately agreed: "Listen, dad, even Ah Wen said that."

Li Erlang turned his head away, his eyelids slightly closed, showing his dissatisfaction.

Li Houzhong sighed, sat down silently and continued to work on the task at hand.Shanzi couldn't understand what the adults were arguing about, but seeing that his grandfather was no longer angry, he ran out and grabbed his father's shirt corner: "Daddy, aunt give me some snacks."

"Well, let's eat."

Li Dalang had something on his mind, so he dismissed his son and dragged Li Erlang away, and gave Guan Wen a grateful look.

Guan Wen nodded slightly, and sat down next to his father-in-law again. He didn't say a word, but silently helped him.

(End of this chapter)