Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 159
Chapter 170 The Third Marriage Truth
Old Liangtou and the others drove away Liang Yuzhong's ox cart and went to Wanghai County. Originally, they planned to go back on the same day, but Liang Yuzhong and Jin Xi waited until it was almost dusk, but they still didn't come back.So, Liang Yuzhong and Jin Xi had no choice but to drive Sun Ji's ox cart back to Jinji Mountain Village.

Ah Fu and Ah Cai had a customer disturbance in the shop during the day, the father and daughter discussed it on the road, and never mentioned it when they got home, lest Sun would be distracted by it.

When I got home, the family had dinner, enjoyed the cool and chatted as usual, and went back to their houses to rest. There was nothing to say all night.

The next day, Old Liangtou and Liang Yuzhou still didn't come back. Jinxi took the time to go to Zhang's butcher's house in the same village, inspected the Zhang family's pigsty, and finally negotiated with Zhang's family for a price of 38 Wen per catty. Regarding the sale of pork.

Because today is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the magpie bridge. Together, we thread the needle against the wind under the moonlight, begging Zhinu for ingenuity.

Tonight, everyone finished work early, Sun's family, Chunzhu's family, and the daughters-in-law of Daniu's family, the sooner the better for the girls, they came to Jinxi's courtyard at night to beg for cleverness.

Jinxi doesn't know how to knit women's red, so she prepares melon and fruit snacks and rice wine in the kitchen earlier, and puts them on the small table in the middle of the yard. After dinner, Chunzhu's family and Daniu's family all bring their daughters After arriving at Jin Xi's house, Jin Rou and several girls of the same age were together, each of them was very excited.

When the bright moon was in the sky, and the weaver girl had paid homage, the big guys began to beg for cleverness. Jin Xi leaned on the side with folded arms and watched with interest. The little girls were waiting in full force, threading the needles in the wind under the moon, flying needles and threads, the rule is to see who wears them The faster the needle is, the better, and you will be able to "get clever", that is, you can get the favor of Zhinu.

In the end, Erni from Chunzhu's family won the first place for Qiqiao that night, and Jinrou came in second, but she was not discouraged.

That night, the inner courtyard of Jin Xi's house was filled with the laughter of women and girls, and a group of people played until very late before leaving the house to their heart's content.

The next day, Jin Xi and Liang Yuzhong went out to the town early in the morning, and Jin Xi immediately saw a garland of wild flowers hanging on the horns of the cow that Liang Yuzhong had brought out.Jin Xi pursed her lips and chuckled, yesterday's Qixi Festival, rural people in this area would celebrate the birthday of the cow, and hang a garland of wild flowers on the horn of the cow.

According to the legend from generation to generation in the village, it is said that when the Queen Mother of the West used a golden hairpin to draw a Milky Way to separate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the old cow asked the Cowherd to peel off its skin in order to allow the Cowherd to cross the Milky Way to see the Weaver Girl. Drive its cowhide to meet Zhinu.

In order to commemorate the sacrifice spirit of the old cow, people have the custom of "celebrating the cow's birthday".

"This cow is very useful. I don't know if the cow that Fourth Uncle and the others chased away got a birthday celebration yesterday." Jin Xi said to herself.

Liang Yuzhong looked at the village with blue tiles and white walls covered by the morning light, and looked at the end of the official road, and said, "Your master and the others have been away for more than two days, and I'm afraid it's time to come back today!"

Liang Yuzhong's prediction really came true. When returning to the village after work in the afternoon, two ox carts met at the west entrance of the town.

Not seeing each other for three days, Jin Xi couldn't help but scrutinized Lao Liangtou and the three of them a few more times, and after this scrutiny, she realized that the three of them were very different from the confused and depressed three days ago when they left for Wanghai County.When I went there, there was only a twine bag containing local products on the ox cart, but when I came back, the twine bag on the cart was gone, replaced by two brand new burden rolls, and a bundled gift box .

Jin Xi often goes to Wanghai County to buy them, and she recognizes some of them as special packaging boxes in several dim sum shops in Wanghai County.

Looking at Lao Liangtou, Liang Yulin and Liang Yuzhou, they all changed into new clothes. Lao Liangtou sat cross-legged on the ox cart, and waved to Liang Yuzhong and Jin Xi from afar, until the two ox carts were side by side. Docking together, Old Liangtou took out a handful of fluffy peaches from a bag on his side, stuffed them to Jinxi, and said, "Girl Xi, take it and eat it, the new fluffy peaches are on the market in the county!"

Jin Xi thanked Lao Liangtou, put the handful of peaches away, and the two ox carts drove out of Changqiao Town, one after the other towards Jinjishan Village.Old Liangtou and his ox cart were driving ahead, and when they reached the edge of the official road in front of Jinxi's family compound, Liang Yuzhou slowed down a little, and turned to ask Old Liangtou who was sitting behind: "Father, are you getting off the car here?" Should I walk back by myself, or should I take you back to the village first and then bring the ox cart back to Third Brother?"

Without waiting for the old Liangtou to say anything, Liang Yulin rushed to say: "Fourth brother, do you still need to ask? There are still a lot of things in this car, so you should drive the car a little further, you can't let daddy get tired at the door of the house, right?" ?”

Liang Yuzhou went to look at Lao Liangtou again, and Lao Liangtou waved his hands and said, "Send us to the door first, and then you can bring the ox cart back to your third brother later!"

Liang Yuzhou yelled at Liang Yuzhong behind him, turned his eyes away and continued to drive to Jinjishan Village in front, behind, Liang Yuzhong and Jinxi's ox cart slowly turned down the official road and entered the magnificent courtyard of Jinxi's family.

"Father, masters pass by our house, why don't you invite them to come in to play for a while and have a drink of tea?" When the father and daughter were carrying the whole basket of vegetables and fruits from the ox cart, Jin Xi He smiled and asked Liang Yuzhong.

Liang Yuzhong was stunned for a moment, looked at the narrow smile on Jinxi's face, grinned too, patted Jinxi's head, and said, "Are you still joking about me, dad? Well, just now, your second uncle and your grandfather just now Didn’t you hear the words? I asked you to come in and play with me right now, it’s embarrassing them, why not be more sensible, don’t say that!”

Jin Xi smiled, shook her head and remained silent. Earlier Liang Yuzhou asked the old Liangtou ox cart where the conversation was, but Liang Yuzhong and his daughter in the car behind could hear it clearly. Liang Yulin didn't want to stop because he didn't want that. On the bullock cart, the gift brought back from the county was touched by Liang Yuzhong, so be careful!

On the ox cart here, the old Liang head glanced at Liang Yulin who was beside him with a smug smile, and said annoyedly: "Look at your poor talent, it's not embarrassing to protect food like this!"

Liang Yulin didn't think so, and said: "Father, these gifts are all from Lihui's father-in-law's family to our old Liang's family. They are all good things. I protect them like this for our old Liang's family. Why are you scolding me?" Woolen cloth!"

"You monkey spirit, looking at your father, I'm so stupid that I can't see how careful you are? Even if you give some to your third brother, so what? Even if he separates, he is still from Lao Liang's family!" Liangtou airway.

"Father, what you said, you're lecturing me here, maybe the third brother and they don't think much of us, look at their big yard, how magnificent they are, they don't need money!" Liang Yulin said with a smile on his face .

Old Liang frowned, gave Liang Yulin a hard look, and said nothing, because the ox cart had already driven into Jinjishan Village.

Jin Xi's family had just brought the evening meal to the small table in the middle of the courtyard, when Liang Yuzhou happened to bring the ox cart over.After asking, they found out that he hadn't had dinner yet, so Liang Yuzhong and the others asked Liang Yuzhou to stay for a meal. Liang Yuzhou was not too polite, and sat down generously at the small table in the yard.

Liang Yuzhong excitedly rushed to the backyard to fetch the wine from Jingshui Town. Here, Liang Yuzhou pulled out two things from his bosom as if conjuring, handed them to Jin Xi and Jin Rou, blinked, and said: "Xi'er, Rou'er, look What did uncle bring you?"

Jinxi and Jinrou accepted it in surprise and couldn't help being amused, it turned out to be two masks, Jinxi's one was the Bull Demon King with two horns, Jinrou's one was the Weaver Girl, colorful.

"Fourth Uncle, you are so kind." Jin Xi said with a smile.

"Fourth Uncle, you are the best, the mask Rou'er likes the most!" Jinrou said happily, took the mask and put it on her face, and happily ran to the clear water basin in the house to take a photo .

"Fourth, they are both grown-ups, why do you spend so much money to buy them such things?" Sun said.

Liang Yuzhou smiled honestly, scratched the back of his head, and said: "Isn't this just a trick? I saw that the children in the county town who were as old as them were wearing it in fashion, so I bought two of them for the two of them to play with! "

"Then, do Master Xi and Uncle Xi'er know about it? Kid Qing and Boy Bai, do they also have them?" Sun asked again.

Liang Yuzhou was a little embarrassed, and said, "I secretly bought it for my two nieces behind their backs."

Sun suddenly realized that Jin Xi curled her lips and stroked the mask in her hand, feeling warm in her heart.Of course, she was a little surprised, because the fourth uncle was a little different from her father. Her father was really honest. When the family was not separated before, all the money he earned was handed over to Mrs. Tan.And the fourth uncle is also honest and honest, but he has a little bit of his own mind, and he knows that he has a little private house, which is very good, very good!
"Hey, fourth child, it's not that the third sister-in-law is being unreasonable and still accuses you. Even if you have a little private possession on your body, you can't spend money like this. In the future, there will be a lot of money to spend when you get married and raise a baby and go to your wife's natal family!" Sun said .

Liang Yuzhou grinned, he knew that the third sister-in-law was sincerely for his own good, so she said these words to him.Immediately nodded, said: "Sister-in-law three, I know it well."

Only then did Mrs. Sun smile reassuringly, and said again: "I heard from your third brother that your father and mother are discussing marriage with the Cui family for you at this moment. How is your matter discussed now?"

Mentioning this, Liang Yuzhou's ears turned red. Seeing this, Jinxi went to the kitchen to get a bowl, walked away a few steps, but hid under the kitchen window to eavesdrop.

"Father and mother said, after a few days to harvest the rice fields, I will go to Cui's house to hire." Liang Yuzhou said.

"The Cui family has no sons, just two daughters. The eldest daughter, Peacock, stayed at home and recruited a son-in-law to marry her. She raised two grandchildren, and the second daughter, Xi Que, is also a diligent and good girl. First hand, she looks fresh and fresh, she is a good girl worth marrying!" Mrs. Sun praised from the bottom of her heart.

The second daughter of the Cui family, Xi Que, is eighteen years old, one year younger than Liang Yuzhou.Two or three years ago, before Liang Jinlan grew up and won the title of the most beautiful woman in Jinjishan Village, Cui Xique was a flower in Jinjishan Village.Since becoming an adult at the age of 15, the threshold of Cui's family has been almost stepped down by people who came to ask for relatives. Liang Yuzhou was also one of Cui Xique's many admirers in the past.

People are like this, often when the stars are holding the moon and the limelight is in full swing, it is always easy to be distracted, and you have to look at Shu, and you can see the height of this mountain.

Rural girls usually get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and men get engaged at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and they are usually promoted to the parents of their children. Cui Xique this year, although in the modern age where Jinxi used to live, is basically still A young girl, but in this era, she is expected to step into the ranks of an old girl.

Especially in the past two years, fewer and fewer people came to ask for marriage. The two elders of the Cui family were in a hurry. They looked at each other and locked the target on Liang Yuzhou, the fourth son of the Liang family. Just so, after Liang Yuzhou's marriage had been quiet for a year or two, Yuelao's red rope tied the two together.

"Being able to marry a magpie is a blessing I cultivated in my previous life." Liang Yuzhou sat there with his head slightly lowered, his tone was three points shy and seven points contented.Jin Xi pursed her lips and snickered, it was the first time she saw this dark and solid fourth uncle shy!

Liang Yuzhong came back with the fermented rice from Jingshui Town, and the two brothers began to drink together with a few dishes of fried rice on the low table, while the third mother ate quietly at the side, and after three rounds of drinking, the two brothers' conversation became more and more open. , the topic turned to Old Liangtou and the others' visit to Zhou's house in the county.

Jin Xi obediently listened to their adults talking, although she didn't see them personally, she still got a general idea of ​​their encounter in the county this time.

It turned out that the old Liangtou and his two brothers, Liang Yulin and Liang Yuzhou, rushed to the county seat, and they searched all the way to find Zhou Xiancheng's house, and it was already afternoon.Visitors usually choose to go in the morning, and it is not in the etiquette for the afternoon and night, so Lao Liangtou found a cheap inn on the street where Zhou's family was located. Recharge your batteries, wash away the dust, and go to visit Zhou's house in the morning of the next day.

Unexpectedly, after getting settled in the afternoon, Liang Yuzhou accompanied Lao Liangtou to rest in the inn, Liang Yulin excused himself to go out to breathe, and quietly knocked on the door of Zhou's house.

"Second brother, why are you in such a hurry? This is too reckless!" Liang Yuzhong said in a low voice, holding his wine glass, his thick eyebrows gathered together.

Liang Yuzhou snorted coldly, and said: "Isn't it? Now, to be a relative, you must have the way of relatives, like that, when the sun is about to set in the afternoon, you still go to ask questions, no taste!"

Liang Yuzhong shook his head helplessly, drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and refilled the wine glass in front of Liang Yuzhou.

"The next day, Dad was about to take us to Zhou's house, when he came to open the door of the inn, he saw Li Hui standing at the door with a young daughter-in-law. This time, let alone discussing Lihui's marriage with Zhou Xiancheng, we didn't even let in the door of Zhou's house, alas!" Liang Yuzhou said.
"However, Li Hui and his daughter-in-law both knelt down and kowtowed to father, and the daughter-in-law even brought granddaughter-in-law tea to father and called her grandpa!" Liang Yuzhou continued.

Jin Xi curled her lips and thought to herself, no wonder Lao Liangtou looked much better when he came back, so it turned out that he closed a door and opened a window, so it was a small gain!well! " Liang Yuzhou said depressedly.

Liang Yuzhong and Mrs. Sun were not so optimistic. On the contrary, their expressions were even more astonished and gloomy. Mrs. Sun couldn't help saying: "Everyone is at the door, and they don't invite you in. They even bring their daughter-in-law to the inn, so what if they kowtow and serve tea?" Isn’t it as if it’s hidden and can’t see the light? Alas, Li Hui brought all those things to the inn. Is, does it mean that he doesn’t want to see you guys go to Zhou’s house, and wants to give it to Lao Liang’s house? Completely broken?"

Jin Xi frowned slightly, if that's the case, then Liang Lihui is really a person who is ungrateful and ungrateful, and forgets his own interests, such a person, let alone a scholar, even if he wins the Juren and the number one scholar, it's nothing more than that !

"Li Hui doesn't want to be seen is one of them. I think the most important thing is Li Hui's father-in-law Zhou Xiancheng's family. They don't want to see that they have anything to do with our old Liang family. They look down on us as a peasant family in the countryside!" Liang Yuzhong said, his voice tinged. Layers of faint shame and anger.

"Third brother, don't be angry, it's useless. I think the same as you. Li Hui is the son-in-law of the Zhou family, and the father-in-law above him is the county magistrate. Li Hui can't be the master at all!" Liang Yuzhou's fingers holding the wine glass were well knuckle.

Liang Yuzhong said in a deep voice: "Li Hui has been a nerd for more than ten years. Since he passed the examination of scholar, he has not made a breakthrough in fame. Now he is afraid that he has changed his mind and wants to cling to the county magistrate. It will be somewhat helpful! Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be fulfilled, not to mention that this matter concerns his future, so it is not unusual for Li Hui to do this!"

"If a person sees a profit, he forgets his origin. Wherever he goes, whoever he clings to, it will be useless in the end!" Liang Yuzhou said angrily.

The three adults were all silent. In order to ease the atmosphere, Jin Xi changed the subject and asked Liang Yuzhou: "Fourth uncle, my brother Li Hui's new daughter-in-law, how is she compared with the Hong family's?"

Obviously, Jinxi's problem is also what Liang Yuzhong and Sun are concerned about.

Liang Yuzhou thought for a while, and a strange look appeared on his face. He seemed to think about it, organized his words, and said: "As an uncle, I didn't look closely at the faces of my niece and daughter-in-law. She looks fair and clean, so she doesn't need a solid country woman like us. She should be a few years older than Li Hui, and her manner of speaking and acting is quite old-fashioned."

Jin Xi couldn't help thinking about it, what kind of fate and horoscope is Liang Lihui, one or two daughters-in-law are his siblings?

"There is one thing that Li Hui didn't tell us personally, but we stayed there for two or three days and found out some information about Miss Zhou's family from others. I don't know if it's true or not!" Liang Yuzhou said.

"What's the matter?" Liang Yuzhong asked.

"I heard from people in the nearby streets that there was only one young lady in the Cheng family of Zhou County. A few years ago, she recruited a proud student to be her son-in-law. She gave birth to a pair of children. The eldest is five years old now. Later, the son-in-law of the Zhou family got married. The disease was dying, and the Zhou family felt sorry for their daughter and her two children, so they intentionally hired another man to come to her door. They didn't ask for that man, and the main reason was to take care of the children together..." Liang Yuzhou said in a deep voice. The four of Liang Yuzhong were dumbfounded!

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The inner courtyard of Lao Liang's house, the east wing.

After eating, drinking, taking a bath, and getting rid of all the fatigue, the old Liangtou changed into the brand new soft and breathable underwear that Liang Lihui and his wife gave him and lay on the bed with a newly bought chimney in his mouth. Swallowing clouds and fog.

Mrs. Tan sat aside, shaking the big cattail fan in her hand, while blowing the wind to Old Liangtou, while asking in a low voice about the trip to the county, the expression on her face was alternately angry, angry, shocked, and angry .In the end, when it was said that the young lady of the Zhou family that Liang Lihui married had already given birth to a pair of children, Mrs. Tan was horrified.

Throwing the big cattail fan in his hand on Old Liangtou, Huo Di stood up and pointed at Old Liangtou and said angrily: "You old man, you spit and nailed each other when you were at home, why did you just go to the county? Confused again? What did you do?"

"Where are you throwing the fan!" Old Liang waved the fan dissatisfiedly, and said angrily, "Where am I so embarrassing and cowardly?"

"Damn it, my well-behaved grandson, it's fine to go to the Zhou family's house and find a cheap father-in-law who can help him become an official, and marry a delicate and charming official lady as a wife. Endure it!" Tan's brows were raised, and she continued: "If I knew that my eldest grandson was not only going to get in the door for others, but also be a cheap stepfather for others, I would grab his ears and bring him back if I died. No! You shallow-sighted old man, a few gifts and a cup of granddaughter-in-law's tea will send you away, and you're still a dick, I'm pissed off!"

Mrs. Tan was standing, Mrs. Liang was lying down, Mrs. Tan was condescending, and the mouthful of pooh was sprayed on Mrs. Liang's face, and Mrs. Liang immediately became angry, but the burning anger in Mrs. Tan's eyes made Mrs. Liang Tou hesitated for a while, he could only wipe the saliva off his face, and scolded Tan Shi in a deep voice: "Damn old lady, I haven't finished my words yet, what are you yelling about! Li Hui told me everything , he can’t be a man, I saw several old Chinese doctors earlier, and they all diagnosed him as infertile, so I’m afraid he won’t be able to be a father in this life!”

"Ah?" Tan's face bled instantly, obviously stunned by the shock of this incident.

"I just thought that the young lady of the Zhou family has raised a pair of children. Even if Li Hui can't help the Zhou family, it won't have much impact on the Zhou family. If he is forced to come back, I'm afraid it will be bad for him in the future." It's not a good thing, it's better, let's just leave it like this!" Old Liang let out a foul breath, sad and helpless.

After experiencing a brief shock, Tan's mind immediately recalled a scene from a long, long time ago. At that moment, Tan's body trembled violently, and he fell down on the bed. Desperate grief and remorse!
"Hui'er, it's your milk that hurt you..." Tan said in a hoarse voice, beating his chest, two lines of hot tears rolled out of his eyes!

(End of this chapter)