The Spring of the Peasant Woman of Transmigration

Chapter 22

Fifth Aunt Zhang tentatively asked: "If I teach him, what if he doesn't sell our red bayberry in the future?"

Lu Yumin smiled and said: "The most important thing about our dried bayberries is that they are not steamed. Dried bayberries that are not dried according to our method are not delicious!"

Aunt Zhang Wu once again praised and said: "Oh, this Sanlin is also a blessing. I married you, a clever and kind-hearted daughter-in-law. It is worthy of her falling out with his parents! Yesterday you gave me the jelly, and my old man drank it. It's even delicious!"

Lu Yumin was taken aback, this is the second time that Fifth Aunt praised her for the jelly!What about the saying in the previous life?If you don't have anything to do, you can either rape or steal!Don't you want to follow her way of jelly?She still wants to use this method to exchange some pocket money!
When Aunt Zhang Wu asked about it, she was careful: "Uncle Wu also said it was delicious? That's a good feeling! I will make more next time I make it, and I will give it to you and Uncle Wu to satisfy your cravings."

Sure enough, Aunt Zhang Wu asked, "Is this difficult to make?"

Lu Yumin said: "Fifth Aunt, this is not easy to make, but it is even more difficult to make this jelly. When I was free at home, I liked to read some books. There are some books on medical herbs. I saw this jelly. It took me a long time to find them on the back mountain, and I tried many times before I made it."

Aunt Zhang Wu asked, "Is this thing hard to find?"

Lu Yumin deliberately said straightforwardly: "You can only find it on the mountain, and my husband and I searched for it all afternoon, only to find a little bit, the fifth aunt, nephew and daughter-in-law can't lie to you, it is really hard to find!"

Aunt Zhang Wu then said: "Oh, it's so embarrassing for you to give it to my aunt to taste such a rare thing."

Lu Yumin said sincerely: "Aunt Wu, you know that I am a child without a mother, and I don't understand many things. I can't do much farm work, and my mother-in-law doesn't like me. Only you don't think I'm stupid. , taught me everything, I am grateful!"

Aunt Zhang Wu immediately said sympathetically: "Then what is there to be grateful for? Don't you think of us when you have good things? Your mother-in-law is a person who will be strong all her life! There are still some things that cannot be said, so don't get too excited. If you care about her, just live your life well!"

Lu Yumin expressed gratitude: "Thank you, auntie, for your guidance!"

On the evening of returning from the town, Li's family held their first family reunion.Five sons and four daughters-in-law are all sitting around the plum tree in the yard of the Li family.

Cui looked at the crowd and said, "I called you here today because I have something to talk about. It will be double-robbed soon, and if there is millet, there will be income."

As soon as Zhang Guihua heard her mother-in-law's tone, she said, "Mother, you also know that my family of five has three acres of land, how much can I earn? Besides paying taxes and rent, there is not enough food!"

Wang Dafeng also said: "Sister-in-law is right! We only have this little land, and we really can't get enough to eat!"

Seeing that the voices of the two fell silent, Mrs. Cui said, "Do you have anything to say from the third family and the fourth family? You can also say it, so you can save it later!"

Liu Azhen looked at Li Silin, then at Lu Yumin, and saw that she was smiling and unable to open her mouth, and then she said: "Mom, I don't have anything to say. Anyway, you and Dad can see the situation at home, so it's meaningless to say anything."

Mrs. Cui glanced at Lu Yumin, saw her bowed her head and said nothing, and said, "Of course I know the situation at home! I told you when the family was separated. The five of you are married, the sixth and the seventh are married, and each of your families has their own decisions. Silver. Now the fifth child wants to marry a girl from Qianjia Village. The bride price is ten taels of silver, one pig, ten chickens and half a sheep. There is no need to worry about anything else. The most urgent thing is this bride price. Let’s see what you can do. !"

The four married sons did not speak, and the four daughters-in-law looked unhappy except for Lu Yumin who was silent.

Seeing that Li Silin didn't speak, Liu Azhen put down the child and stood on the ground and said, "Mom, we really can't afford the money, and I have money on my body. This year's farm work is too busy for Silin alone, so I have to hire someone! "

Cui stared deeply at Liu Azhen before saying: "It's not that the mother is partial to one of them. When you entered the door, the betrothal gift was also pooled by everyone. It can't be said that if you have it, you won't be a part of it."

Liu Azhen sat on the stool aggrieved. Seeing that Li Silin didn't speak, she burst into tears. Lu Yumin handed her the cotton towel in his hand.

Cui is a well-known powerful mother-in-law in Lijia Village, except for Zhang Guihua who is more aggressive and dares to contradict her, Wang Dafeng ignores her and refuses to speak against her. Scary people.

Seeing that the daughters-in-law stopped talking, Cui called the roll call: "Boss, tell me!"

Li Dalin looked at his daughter-in-law and then at his mother, and finally said, "Mother, tell me, I'll listen."

Cui asked again: "Where are the second, third, and fourth children?"

The second and fourth brothers both said, "We all listen to mother!"

Li Sanlin glanced at Lu Yumin who bowed his head and said nothing before saying: "Mother, I should have listened to you, but you also know that I just married a wife and came in, and now the money on hand is really tight."

Mrs. Cui said coldly: "Don't say that you don't have any. If you take out some, you don't have to borrow them! Each family pays for two taels, and we will pay for what is not enough and other things. If you marry a second wife, I will pay for it." I also gave it to you, this third one is what you want to marry, and it is up to you to use as much or as little as you want!"

Li Sanlin saw that his mother spoke so terribly, he sat there with a heavy heart, and looked at Cui Shi with complicated eyes, knowing that there was no room for negotiation, so he also sat down and kept silent.

Wang Dafeng really felt that this mother-in-law was too autocratic, so she murmured, "We don't have money either. If we had money, how could we not come out?"

Cui said: "No money? You went to the town today and made a lot of money, right?"

Wang Dafeng said angrily: "Who is that talkative and messy tongue! I went to the town today and sold dozens of eggs and a few cans of dried red bayberry, and the total income is only a few hundred dollars! The children have not seen each other for ten days. I’ve eaten meat, and I’m only willing to chop off a catty, and I’ve bought everything else at home, so there’s not much to spare!”

Cui said: "I don't ask you how much money you have. That's all for today. The time for getting married is at the beginning of September. There are still two months left. You should get your money as soon as possible." Hand it over!"

Zhang Guihua said: "Mom, our family doesn't have money to dry red bayberry here. This year's eggs are all eaten by the children, and there is no money at all. We need to spend these two months to grab it!"

Mrs. Cui said impatiently: "It's all up to you how you came here. You all made it clear when you entered the house and left. Well, it's getting late, let's all go back and rest!"

As soon as Wang Dafeng left the old house of Li's family, he stuffed the child into Li Erlin's hands: "Hold it! I don't eat much for dinner, and now I'm hungry, so I don't have the energy to hold the child!"

Li Erlin took the child and said, "I'm going to give you half a bowl, but you don't want to die! Are you hungry now?"

Wang Dafeng said bitterly: "You are a big man and you don't have the energy to work if you don't eat enough!"

Li Erlin said guiltily: "What's the matter if I'm hungry? I'm such a big man, what can happen if I'm hungry all night!"

Wang Dafeng said sadly: "If something happens to you because of hunger, then our family will really be over! The third brother and sister brought me to sell dry bayberries to earn this oil money! If there is no oil to eat, then we will not be hungry."

Li Erlin felt more and more guilty: "In a few days, when the summer grain comes in, there will be food to eat!"

Before Li Erlin finished speaking, Wang Dafeng said angrily: "What a fart! Your mother came here to ask for money before the food was confiscated! Two taels of silver? Where are you going to earn it!"

The anger of his daughter-in-law made Li Erlin feel that he was incompetent, but facing the angry daughter-in-law, he could only comfort him and said: "There will always be a way to earn it. After collecting the grain and paying taxes, send some of it to sell, and then I will go to town Go up and do a part-time job, so you won’t be embarrassed!”

"Selling grain? You can't collect a few hundred catties of grain in total on these three acres of land, and you have to pay taxes. What's left is not enough to eat for yourself! It doesn't matter if we both eat less, but can this child eat less?" Wang said. The wind screamed loudly!

Seeing that his daughter-in-law was really angry, Li Erlin immediately comforted her and said, "Okay, okay, the grain will not be sold, I will tell my mother, and I will give it to her when I come back from working part-time to earn money!"

Wang Dafeng said indignantly: "Everyone is living in such a difficult situation, can't we find a girl with less dowry money? Twelve taels of dowry is so high in our rural area that we don't even know how high it is! "

Li Erlin said with a wry smile: "I heard that this girl is very nice, and her family is not bad. For such a family, ten taels of betrothal gift can't be said to be too high!"

Wang Dafeng looked unfair: "The dowry gift of ten taels of silver is not high. When you married me, how much did you give?"

Li Erlin said with a bright face: "Isn't that many years ago?"

Wang Dafeng wiped away his tears and said, "I don't care, if you have money, you can give it to me! My three children can't eat enough, so how can I have extra money for them to marry their aunts!"

Li Erlin coaxed her and said: "Good daughter-in-law, my husband knows that you have suffered with me for so many years. After the summer grain is collected, I will ask my third brother to find a job for me. When the child is older and life will be better, I will never give up. It won't make you suffer anymore!"

Wang Dafeng wiped away his tears and said: "I'm not afraid of suffering or tiredness, but this life is really not very good! You are a big man, how can you save on food? The eldest brother is the eldest son and his father loves him, and the fifth brother is the son and his mother love him. But you are a person who is not above or below, besides being a wife, who would love you!"

Li Erlin held the sleeping child in one hand and let him lean on his shoulder, and put his arm around Wang Dafeng on his chest: "I only need a wife who hurts me! Parents' pain is temporary, but daughter-in-law's pain is forever! "

Wang Dafeng was amused by Li Erlin's words: "I will never love you forever!"

Li Erlin walked with her and said, "Then I will love my wife for the rest of my life!"

(End of this chapter)