Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 341 Don't bully young people into poverty (two in one)

"Why don't the two families come to a verbal agreement first, and let the people in the village know, so that there will be fewer incidents? Wait two years from now when Qinya is older, and then ask the matchmaker to come and say kiss!" Sun Yuxia waved her hand and croaked.

Mrs. Sun nodded. She thought so too. She had to let her know first, lest someone who didn't know would come to marry Sun Erhu later.Because, the last time Mrs. Sun went back to Sunjiagou, someone asked Mrs. Sun to inquire about her, and wanted to betroth a niece from the mountain to Sun Yubao, but Mrs. Sun found an excuse to perfunctory her.

Because Mrs. Sun knew that Sun Yubao definitely had no plans to get married at this moment.

Qin Ya glanced at Sun Yuxia gratefully, thinking that this was the best sentence she ever said.However, Qinya's gratitude hadn't dissipated yet, and Sun Yuxia smiled and said: "I said wait for two years, maybe our Qinya is impatient, and we should say kiss in less than a year and a half!"

Qin Ya was crying in embarrassment, neither was she laughing, and Sun gave Sun Yuxia a light thump, telling her to stop saying a few words.

"Sister, don't hit me. I'm just out of my heart. I used to be afraid that Erhu would be careless, so I brought in a thoughtful strange woman to be my sister-in-law. I didn't expect it to be Qin. Ah, that couldn't be better!" Sun Yuxia said.

There was a smile on Qinya's face, so why not?

"Girl Qin, don't pay attention to her. Let's go back to Sunjiagou as we said, and let's do it like this, okay?" Mrs. Sun asked.

What else could Qin Ya say, her heart was full of excitement and joy, but she lowered her brows shyly, nodded her head lightly, and said in a voice like a mosquito: "Everything is up to the old lady."

"Although the marriage is the order of the parents and the matchmaker's words, if both the son and the daughter are satisfied, then the marriage will be more happy." Mrs. Sun also came out to smooth things over, and after finishing speaking, her eyes could not help but pause on Jin Xi who was opposite her Next, a complex look flashed in his eyes.

When the sky was getting dark in the afternoon, the explosion of firecrackers was heard in the village one after another, and intermittent firecrackers could also be heard in nearby villages.

24 is an important day in this area to welcome the ancestors back home for the New Year.

Cai Qingyang came in from the outside, holding a firecracker in his hand, followed by Jinrou Wenyun Wen'an and a group of children.

"My lord, I brought the firecrackers from the warehouse." Cai Qingyang handed the firecrackers to Liang Yuzhong. Liang Yuzhong was the head of the family, and he had to light the firecrackers that inherited his ancestors.

Liang Yuzhong walked quickly to the front yard, and the female relatives behind were chatting and laughing, and they all followed suit to the front yard.Passing by the door of the West Wing, Jin Xi glanced at Wending's room, and found that the candles were already lit.The light cast three sitting figures on the window.

These three brothers haven't been together for a long time, they have endless things to talk about, Jin Xi thought to himself.That's good too, Sun Erhu is upright and a bit dull, and Sun Yubao is delicate and delicate. With him around, he must be able to better ease the depressed emotions in Brother Wen's heart these days.

Even though he never showed the slightest bit of discouragement and melancholy to the outside world, Jin Xi clearly noticed that the former look was missing from his eyes.

The Sun family couldn't make it back to Sunjiagou today, but Mrs. Sun was very humorous, standing on the porch of the outer courtyard, watching Cai Qingyang helping Liang Yuzhong hang a long firecracker on the wall.

She turned her head and joked with the Sun family beside her: "It was said before that the ancestors of the He family were lame, and they had to be 25 to get home. This year, the ancestors of the He family have companions."

Everyone around laughed, Sun Yuxia giggled and said: "Mother, don't worry, we sent a letter to my father-in-law a few days ago, you and Yubao are not at home today, my father-in-law remembers the past Let the firecrackers take over the ancestors on your behalf. My father-in-law is my father's elder brother, and he is the representative, and the ancestors also recognize it."

Just as he was talking, Liang Yuzhong had already lit the fuse of the firecracker hanging outside, and the crisp sound of the firecracker suddenly resounded in the yard outside, accompanied by the cheers of the children.

Everyone didn't speak, and all their eyes were on the place where the firecrackers were roaring. Everyone had smiles on their faces, and some even covered their ears.

Jin Xi stood on the porch, looking up at the sky that was gradually darkening, her breath was filled with the strong sulfur smell after the firecrackers.The taste of the new year seems to be strong in an instant.

It's a new year and a new beginning. Everything is changing, but the only constant is the tireless pace of progress.

Jin Xi's gaze swept over the faces of the women around her one by one, everyone's faces were filled with joy and anticipation.Even though Jinxi's family is carrying ten thousand whips this year, the only families in the village that can gather ten thousand whips to take over their ancestors are Lizheng, Lao Yang's, and these few.

However, no matter how long the firecracker battle is, it will end.As the last coda sounded, the voices of the people around me seemed to gradually fade away.

Mrs. Sun and the others watched the whole process of the firecracker battle contentedly, and the big guy had a deep satisfaction and a smile on his face, talking and laughing and returning to the inner courtyard.

"Xi'er, it's windy outside, let's go inside too!" Qin Ya took Jin Xi's arm, turned around and went to the house.

Jin Xi withdrew her gaze, freed her hand to gather tightly the sapphire blue rabbit fur cloak on her shoulders, and walked towards the inner courtyard behind her.

This is Qin Ya's second visit to Jinxi's house. When she came back for the first time, Jinxi's new house had just been completed, and the courtyard was basically bare.Now that I come again, walking all the way in with Jinxi on my arm, what I see with my eyes is the furniture in the house, the layout of the stones, flower beds, and plants in the yard, and I am so amazed that I can't shut my mouth from ear to ear.

"It's different today, Xi'er, if Brother Erhu and I can live in a house like yours in the front and back yards in this life, and there are servants in the house, I will wake up laughing from my dreams!" What was in my heart was spoken.

"Why do you think you can't?" Jin Xi turned her head and asked with a smile.

Qin Ya was stunned for a moment, pointed at her nose, and said, "We can do it too?"

Only relying on Jinxi, he jumped out of the hard life of being a pig herder under the fence, and found a job in a shop in the town.Although Brother Erhu is also the owner of [-]% of the grocery store, all of this is because of Xi'er standing in front of him. After all, they are just laying hands and running errands to help.

This also works?
It's not difficult for Jin Xi to see the shortness of breath in this girl's heart from the changing look in Qin Ya's eyes.Jin Xi pursed her lips and showed a sincere smile, stretched out her hand to cover Qin Ya's hand, and said, "As long as you have the heart and dare to fight, anyone can do it!"

After Jin Xi finished speaking, she glanced at the screen wall in front of her. The lanterns hanging under the screen wall had already been lit, reflecting the budding wax eyebrows below. Fragrance, people have a sense of blurred trance.

"There is another saying, don't bully the young and poor. Three years ago today, the environment where my parents, Rou'er and I live is far beyond your imagination!"

In the backyard of Lao Liang’s house, the low west wing house has air leaks in the windows, damp soil on the ground, cobwebs on the roof beams, and mouse holes in the corners.

The tables and chairs are lame, the bed is creaking, the bedding on the bed is thin and dilapidated, the stomach is often hungry, but the mood is extremely depressed and cautious, always in fear.

Qin Ya looked straight at Jin Xi, she had already heard about the past from Sun Yuxia.But when she heard Jin Xi say this herself today, Qin Ya's feelings were still shocked again.

She squeezed Jin Xi's hand, looked around at all the beautiful scenery in front of her, and asked: "The present is not what it used to be, everything is in the past, Xi'er, are you satisfied now?"

"No, I will never be satisfied." Jin Xi said without thinking, people's desire is getting closer to the predetermined goal step by step, and then expanding step by step.

If she is satisfied, it means that she stops chasing.Chasing is like sailing against the current. If you don’t advance, you will retreat. If you never stay in place, you will naturally be unsatisfied.

"Xi'er, you are different from us!" Qin Ya didn't know what she was talking about, and finally just sucked Niubi hard, and said seriously.

Jin Xi smiled, looked at herself playfully, and said, "I don't think I'm any different from you!"

Qin Ya also laughed, and suddenly put her arms around Jin Xi's shoulders, and said in a low voice: "Xi'er, I am grateful to you from the bottom of my heart."

Without Jinxi's dissatisfaction, Qin Ya would not be where she is today.It wasn't Jinxi who took her out of the mountain first, and put her in Qianlixiang to work, so that she could learn more. I'm afraid that at this moment, she would have been sold by that gambling uncle to an old widower in the mountains...

Jin Xi was stunned, this girl, what's the matter, suddenly hugging her and saying such words made Jin Xi feel strangely uncomfortable.Just as she was about to push her away to make a joke, Qin Ya had already let go of Jin Xi, and turned her face to wipe her reddened eyes.

"Xi'er, let's stop talking here, dinner is about to start in the backyard, and I can already smell the aroma of vegetables!" After speaking, without waiting for Jin Xi's reaction, he directly grabbed her and ran to the backyard.

It's rare that all the big guys gather together during the New Year's Eve this year. At the New Year's banquet at night, the food and drinks are extraordinarily rich.Mrs. Sun almost took out all the ostentation that should be in the New Year's Eve to entertain everyone.

The banquet was originally planned to be held in the main room in the front yard, but Mrs. Sun said that it was a bit cold there at night, so it was not as warm as the big dining hall in the back yard.

Therefore, the banquet was placed in the big dining hall in the backyard. The two big tables did not separate the men's and women's seats, but were joined together to form a big table, and everyone was seated.

There are four charcoal fire basins in the dining hall. Although ordinary charcoal is used, some charcoal bits are mixed in it, which inevitably has a pungent smell of smoke.However, compared to the fact that [-]% of the people in the village can't afford charcoal and use sawn wood foam mixed with pine branches to keep warm in winter, the treatment of Jinxi's family is already very good.

Jin Xi kept an eye out and closed the doors and windows tightly so that the smell of smoke would escape.

On the night of New Year's Eve, Jin Xi's house was warm and lively.It was freezing cold outside, dripping water turned into ice, but inside the dining hall was warm as spring.The taste of the New Year, with the laughter, cups and cups interlaced, and the cheers of the children, becomes more and more intense, like a jar of old wine that has been sealed for a long time, full of fragrance and intoxicating.

Some families are happy and some are sad, but at the same time, the old Liang's house in the village across a pond is another scene.

Liang Yuzhou and Cui Xique, following the agreement they had made when they got married, would go to the old Cui's house at the other end of the village to spend with Cui Xique's parents every year on New Year's Eve.

Old Liangtou lived with the fourth house this month, so Cui Xique told Dafang's current wife, Tao Zhina, in the afternoon to let old Liangtou go to the big house when he was young, and Liang Yuzhou also lived with Lao Liangtou. After we agreed, the fourth and fourth couple locked the door and went to Lao Cui's house in the dark.

Taozhi and Jinshi are in the kitchen of the big house, Jinshi sits below and stuffs firewood, Taozhi holds the pot, chops vegetables, stir-fries them, stir-fries them, and steams them, Taozhi cooks them one by one with ease and skill.

After a while, the aroma of all kinds of dishes filled the small kitchen, causing Liang Liqing, who was in the main room outside, to poke his head towards the kitchen after a while.

"Fourth brother, the stewed bream is ready, come and help the second sister-in-law taste the saltiness?" Amidst the smoke and fire, Tao Zhi's gentle voice called to the door of the kitchen, and the pair of half-sized hands holding the door frame road.

The hand holding the door frame obviously moved, and after a moment of hesitation, Liang Liqing snorted, "Don't you know if it's salty or light? It's a good thing you're standing on the pot with a spatula, pretending to show it to someone." !"

After humming, Liang Liqing turned around and left the door of the kitchen, stomping back to his own room, and fell headlong on the bed.Imagining the newly made wheat bran pillow on the bed as a peach branch, he slammed it twice with his fist.

"The stinky widow has taken over my second elder brother, coaxed the whole family around, and wants to bribe me with fish? Hmph, I'm not a child, I'm a year older than that bitch Jin Xi!"

He punched two more fists, but his chest was still stuffy, only then did he realize that the sheets, quilt covers and pillows on the bed had all been replaced with clean ones.

"Damn widow, when did you come into my house?" Liang Liqing blushed angrily.He subconsciously reached out and stroked the pillow, it was no longer the greasy touch it used to feel, he sniffed his fist that just hit the pillow, hey, it was no longer the smell of sweat mixed with hair oil before unpleasant smell.

There was still a faint smell of fragrant soap on the hand, which, to be honest, really smelled good.Liang Liqing sat by the bed, frowning in a daze.

As for the kitchen, Mrs. Jin hesitated to talk to Tao Zhina several times in fear and trepidation.

"Zhi'er, what, mother knows you are a good sister-in-law, your fourth brother..."

"Mother, don't worry, I'm fine. The fourth brother is still a half-grown child. As a sister-in-law, I won't be serious with him." Taozhi pushed the chopped pork liver into the oil pan, and looked at the gold on the stove. Shi cast a reassuring smile.

In the dim light of the kitchen, the rising heat, reflecting the gentle face of the peach branch, makes people feel so soft and amiable.

Jinshi grinned, let out an eh, buried her head in joy and continued to add a lot of firewood to the stove.

"Oh, mother, the fire in this stove is too hot, and the pig's liver can't bear it." Taozhi put down the spatula, walked around to the door of the stove in two or three steps, took the fire stick in Jin's hand, and poured it into the stove After a few strokes, the firewood was dispersed, and the fire was immediately reduced.

Tao Zhi glanced at the side who stood up habitually, because of panic and guilt, she subconsciously grabbed Jin Shi by the corner of her clothes, Tao Zhi's nose was slightly sore.

The mother-in-law is the shadow left behind by grandma Tan's coercion in the past. Taozhi must have heard Sun and Jinxi mention that Tan's punishment for wrong daughters-in-law!

Taozhi smiled slightly, and said softly to Mrs. Jin: "Mother, it's nothing, it doesn't matter if it's a little bit mushy. Boy Sheng likes to eat slightly burnt pork liver soup. Next time, before you add a lot of firewood to the pot , just look at the dishes in the pot, or ask me, it's nothing, ah!"

Jin was stunned for a moment, looked at the friendly smiling face of his daughter-in-law in front of him, and nodded straight.Taozhi fixed the stove, then hurriedly got up and went to the pot.

Here, Jin shi lowered her head and sat down again, raised her sleeves and quietly wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes.All this is really like a dream, she can live such a good life, have such a good wife by her side, treat her so well, and don't despise her.

Liang Lisheng rushed into the kitchen from the outside, seeing the warm and lively scene of the mother and daughter-in-law sitting on top of each other, Liang Lisheng felt a burst of warmth in his heart.

"Why are you alone? Where's the master?" Tao Zhi came over and poked his head out of the kitchen, glanced at the main room, turned around and asked Liang Lisheng in surprise.

"I'll pick him up for supper together, but my master said he was too full at noon and couldn't eat at night, so let me come back!" Liang Lisheng said truthfully.

"How can I do that? If I can't eat anymore, I have to come and cook for a while. Tonight is New Year's Eve. Let him be alone in the room, so deserted." Tao Zhi said, urging Liang Lisheng to go again.

Mrs. Jin also helped to urge her below, saying: "Zhi'er also warmed wine for your grandfather, and that wine is what he likes to drink."

"Well, I warmed a pot of wine left by Ga Gong." Tao Zhi nodded.

Since Dr. Chen was invited by Jin Xi's family that day to diagnose Wending's leg injury, he left behind two courses of medicine.Two days later, Dr. Chen hurriedly left Jinjishan Village with his pharmacist Lin Er, saying that he had to go back to his house in the capital to get a set of medical supplies, and he would not be able to return to the village until a year later.

Before Dr. Chen left, he mixed the jar of wine he had brought from the county with certain Chinese herbal medicines to relieve Lao Liangtou's chest tightness, asthma and other old diseases.But he was also afraid that Old Liang would get a jar of medicinal wine, and no one around him would restrain his health from drinking recklessly, so he put the jar of medicinal wine in the big room and asked Tao Zhi to drink it for him in moderation.

"Why don't I go over to invite you too?" Tao Zhi said, raising her hand to take off the apron on her waist, but was stopped by Liang Lisheng.

It's rare for my daughter-in-law to be so filial to her grandfather, but she doesn't know about her grandfather, but she still looks down on her wholeheartedly.Liang Lisheng is not stupid, his daughter-in-law hurts herself, so she is not allowed to be wronged by Lao Liangtou!
"You don't need to go, I'll just go again!" He hurriedly said, turned around and strode out of the kitchen.

"Then hurry up, the pork liver soup is ready, and we can set the table and chopsticks for dinner." Tao Zhi chased two steps behind and ordered.

Liang Lisheng waved his hands without looking back, and said, "Understood!"

After a while, Liang Lisheng came back dejectedly.Jinshi and Taozhi rushed forward, and were surprised to see that Old Liangtou still hadn't come.

"Forget it, there's no need to go anymore, my master has already taken off his clothes and gone to bed, so let's not bother him!" Liang Lisheng said, and directly called Liang Liqing into the kitchen to serve the dishes.

Tao Zhi and Jin Shi, you look at me, and I look at you.

"Zhi'er, why don't we serve a bowl of food to your grandfather?" Jin asked.

Tao Zhi thought for a while, and said: "Mother, forget it, the master told us not to disturb him, then let's listen to the kid, let the master sleep well!" After finishing speaking, Tao Zhi turned around and entered the stove, and began to spread chopsticks Set the meal.

In the east wing of the backyard, the room was dark and deserted.A soybean oil lamp was lit on the small stool in front of the bed, and the range that could be seen was only about the size of a palm in front of the bed.

Old Liang was wearing a coat and sat on the bed with his back bent. There was no heating in the bed.In his hands exposed outside the quilt, he held a white paper scroll.

With trembling hands, he brought the picture scroll close to the soybean oil lamp in front of the bed, squinted his eyes and looked at the familiar face on the picture scroll, and remained silent for a long time, the only sound in the room was the rustling of fingers on the paper.

"Old lady, you are relieved to be gone. You closed your eyes and stared at your feet. You just let go of everything and left me alone in this world.

The paper is high-quality rice paper, and the portrait of Mrs. Tan on it is lifelike. This is the time when Mrs. Tan sat on the head seven times, and Liang Lihui recalled Mrs. Tan's demeanor in his memory.It was originally planned to be burned in front of the grave, but was taken away by Lao Liangtou and kept.

When there is nothing to do, old Liangtou likes to look at Tan's picture scrolls in the room and talk to her.

"The children are getting older, and each one of them has gone to take care of their own little family when their wings are hardened. I am an old one, and I have become redundant! Ever since Meier ran away that time, there has been no news. I don't know if it is dead or alive! I want to go with you too, but I still can't let go!"

"Old lady, I'm having a hard time. The room is so deserted and scary, and there's no one around me to talk to. It's hard to be a companion..."

"The third child, it seems that he is really angry with me as an old man. It's been half a month, and he hasn't come to look at me. Old woman, tell me, what crime have I done!"

That night, the lights of thousands of families were celebrating the new year. Old Liangtou was sitting on the bed, holding Tan's picture scroll, murmuring in a low voice and wiping away his tears.The soybean oil is finally burned out, and when the last spark jumps and struggles, it is still impossible to escape the fate of running out of oil and burning out the lamp.

The room was suddenly swallowed by darkness, and old Liang Tou sat alone on the bed, sighing in the dark night.

At the same night, in an alley where rich people gathered in the area of ​​Changqiao Town, the night wind blew through the wide and deep alley.

Under the lintel of one of the vermilion houses, a pair of red lanterns with the word Yang on them swayed gently in the night wind.

Inside the courtyard wall are houses with two entrances.Various plants and trees are planted in the yard, and illuminated lanterns are hung every few steps under the corridor. From time to time, people dressed as servants pass by the corridor with fragrant tea and cakes, and go straight to the backyard.

(End of this chapter)