Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 355 Returning to Sunjiagou ([-] in [-])

Chapter 380 Three Going Back to Sunjiagou (Two in One)

But I'm sorry, Jin Xi won't stop talking until she has finished speaking, this is her habit, and Lao Liang's family has figured it out, so no one came out to stop her.

"However, it's a pity that you are just a scheming, opportunistic villain who uses deceiving women's feelings to seize other people's family property, and has an extremely shameless character and despicable behavior. You and your uncle are like a crow falling on a pig." On the back, don't think anyone is black!"

Liang Lizhi has never been scolded by someone pointing his nose like this, not because of anything else, but because of Jinxi's words, every sentence, like needles, pierced his heart!

He was about to stand up and rush forward, but was held down by Liang Yuzhong and Liang Yuzhou with both hands.

"Master, don't wipe your tears. It's going to rain and he's going to get married. Let's not block him! Having such a cousin is a disgrace to me!" Jin Xi looked at Liang Lizhi coldly, and dropped the last sentence talk.

Celebrate a lively family gathering that ended badly in such a way.Liang Lizhi, who originally planned to spend the sixth day of the first lunar month at home before returning to the county seat, walked back to the county seat in the afternoon of the same day. Except for Mrs. Jin who wiped his tears and sent them to the village entrance, everyone else in the old Liang family ignored him angrily.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Liang Yuzhong's family got up before dawn to wash and prepare, wrapped the third and fourth children who were still sleeping in a small quilt, and carried them into the carriage.

In the carriage compartment, Mama Dong had already laid out warm and soft cushions, covered her hands with hot hands, and prepared snacks for the third and fourth children, as well as clothes that could be added or subtracted at any time.

Behind them, Liang Yuzhong and A Cai drove an ox cart loaded with gifts for this trip back to Sunjiagou for New Year greetings.Mrs. Sun and Father Sun's family naturally accounted for the majority.In addition, gifts were prepared for several other friendly families in Sunjiagou.Because the tea garden in the back mountain of Sunjiagou has been leased for the past few years, it is necessary to prepare New Year's gifts for Lizheng in Sunjiagou and several prestigious old people in the village.

Mrs. Sun and Jinrou had already carried the third and fourth child into the carriage, and outside, before Jin Xi set off, she was still at the back of the ox cart, counting and checking the amount of gifts on the cart again to make sure everything was correct Then he quickly walked to the carriage in front of him, supported Cai Qingyang's arm and quickly got into the carriage.

After dropping the thick and insulated curtains of the carriage, Cai Qingyang waved the whip in his hand, and the carriage got on the road smoothly.

Sun embraced the third child who was still sleeping soundly, sitting in the carriage warm as spring, looking through the small ear windows on both sides of the carriage, looking at the passers-by who were freezing in the cold wind outside but still going out to pay New Year's greetings, she couldn't help but sigh several times.

As soon as Jin Xi got into the car and warmed her hands, she took the soundly sleeping fourth child from Jin Rou's arms and held her in her arms.

"When you and Rou'er are as old as the third and fourth children, going out to pay New Year's greetings in the first month is the most worrying and headache thing for me and your father." Sun looked at the passers-by passing by from time to time outside the car window, said with emotion.

"Visiting relatives and friends in the first month, at best, is walking between relatives to connect with each other. At worst, it is also completing a series of tasks. We used to walk with your second mother's natal family for two years Later, both sides felt that they couldn't go on, so they gradually stopped." Sun sighed, thinking that before the separation, the old Liang family would sometimes go to the old Yang's house in the west of the village to pay New Year's greetings. The Yang family, which time in the past of the first lunar month was not looked down upon and disliked by others?
Jin Xi pursed her lips and smiled, Sun saw it clearly.Relatives are like friends, they are more expensive than many.

As a child with a pure nature, what I like the most is to visit a real relative's house like Gapo. It is a sincere welcome and a rare thing, not waiting for you to leave, and people will clean up the house behind you, swearing The children of so-and-so's family are poorly educated and mess with things.

Liang Jinlan's family, the old Yang family, was rich and snobbish. Naturally, they looked down on Liang Yuzhong and Sun's couple at that time. If that was the case, how could they treat their daughters kindly?

"Fortunately, we have our own Gapo's family, and at least one real relative walks around!" Sun continued.

"What the children look forward to most is the Chinese New Year. At that time, we only had an ox cart at home. Your milk is rare for that ox. There are not many relatives in the family. They are all close and close. At that time, we counted Sunjiagou The road is the farthest and the most difficult, but it is also the place you most want to go all year round." Sun recalled with a wry smile.

"Nai Tie must be reluctant to lend us the ox cart to go back to Sunjiagou to celebrate the New Year. I still remember that one year, it was my father who carried me on his shoulders to the Gapo's house over the mountains and ridges." Jinrou curled her lips.

Mrs. Sun nodded with a wry smile, and said: "At that time, the four of us will hike back to Sunjiagou on foot. I will carry things, and Rou'er will be smaller. Your father will carry you on your shoulders along the way. Xi'er will grow How old are we? Most of us recite one step and then coax them to walk. Poor little legs, when we came to your old lady’s house, I cried and cried, and every time I came back, my old lady was so distressed that I burst into tears!”

Although Jin Xi has not personally experienced these things at this moment, the part of the memory belonging to the host in her body has never been erased.Now that Mrs. Sun mentioned it, dusty memories swept over with the emotions at that time, Jin Xi pursed her lips and smiled, her nose was a little sour.

"I remember one year when it rained on the second day of the first lunar month, my parents couldn't take us to Sunjiagou, so they left me and my sister at home. Later, my sister was called by my second mother to help in the kitchen, and my grandmother came to the west wing and saw me. He was still there wiping his tears, but he slapped me at that time, saying that my tears during the Chinese New Year were bad luck, and I was not given that lunch!" Jin Rou, who was wearing a bun and wearing pink velvet flowers, was depressed Holding his chin, he still said indignantly.

Jin Xi smiled and stretched out her hand to touch Jinrou's head, and said, "It's not like we don't know what kind of character grandma is! Hey, don't say we used to be young, but now we're grown up, and it's okay to go back to Sunjiagou to pay New Year's greetings in the first month. Isn’t it still the one thing I long for the most? I’m not afraid of your jokes, I haven’t returned to Sunjiagou for a long time, and I really miss it!”

"Me too!" Jin Rou raised her hand.

"Me too..." Suddenly, the fourth child in Jin Xi's arms made a childish voice, imitating Jin Rou, and wanted to raise the chubby hand.It's a pity that the quilt was wrapped, and the chubby struggled for a long time but couldn't lift it out.

The Sun family and Jinxi Jinrou sisters in the carriage were all amused by the words and actions of the fourth child, and the laughter spread to the ox cart following behind, Liang Yuzhong couldn't help it on his dark and tough Chinese character face Put on a lighthearted smile.

The departure was early and there was no delay on the way. Not only that, the kind-hearted Liang Yuzhong also picked up a few young couples and children who had experienced what they had encountered in the past. For this side, it is just a matter of lifting a finger, but for them, it is undoubtedly a timely help.

They left early, and within two hours, the family arrived at Sunjiagou. Compared with those in the village who drank too much alcohol at night or slept late, they had just woken up.

After entering the village, I greeted the villagers who met Sunjiagou head-on, and went straight to the door of Mrs. Sun's house.

The half-person-high dirt courtyard wall is connected to a wooden door, which is wide open, with a bright red door god on it.

Mrs. Sun was feeding the chickens in the yard, when she heard the sound of carriages and horses outside the yard, she happily put down the small sieve in her hand, and stepped out of the gate of the yard.Just in time to see the sisters Jinxi and Jinrou standing beside the carriage with smiles, Cai Qingyang carried the third and fourth children off the carriage one by one.In the end, it was Mrs. Sun who bowed out from the carriage, supported Jinxi's hand and got out of the carriage steadily.

At this time, Mrs. Sun had already held the third and fourth children with her left and right hands, and looked at the daughters, granddaughters and grandchildren in front of her, each of whom was dressed in new clothes.The girls were in high spirits, the boys were thick-headed, the girls had ruddy complexions, and a rare silver hairpin was inserted between the buns on their heads.Mrs. Sun narrowed her eyes with a smile, and nodded repeatedly to greet the big guy into the yard.

Liang Yuzhong and others came to say hello to Mrs. Sun, and then they were busy unloading the goods on the ox cart. Here, Mrs. Sun led the third and fourth into the yard, followed by Mrs. Sun's third.

The yard was neatly tidied up. Next to the wall, several bundles of red pine fur tied with straw were piled up. A big yellow and white tabby cat was lying on the woodpile, basking in the sun with its eyes squinted.

On the lintel of the main house and the row of windows facing you, red paper-cuts sway gently in the breeze.

Jin Xi took a few steps closer and squinted her eyes to look carefully, and found that these paper-cuts seemed to be the same from a distance, but in fact, the patterns on each paper were different.

There are magpies climbing branches, flowers blooming side by side, and golden boys fishing.The smile on the boy's face, and the details of the hair crown on the top of the head, which resembles the lid of a teapot, are all well-cut and realistic. Looking at it all the way, it is amazing!
"The sun in the yard is good. I asked Yubao to move the table to the yard when I got up in the morning. Yesterday Yuxia and Dahu came to pay New Year's greetings, and they just drank tea in the sun in the yard." The best food is taken out and put on the table.

The third child and the fourth child stepped on the stool, half lying on the table with their little buttocks pouted, and the four chubby hands rummaged through the pile of snacks on the table.Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Sun stood behind each of them, supporting each other while chatting without delay.

"Mother Xi'er, is Father Xi'er busy these days? He seems to have lost weight a few times, but he looks good in spirit!" While drinking tea, Mrs. Sun couldn't help asking Sun .

Mrs. Sun sighed lightly, and before she could open her mouth in a hurry, Jin Rou told about Liang Yuzhong's serious illness a few years ago.

Mrs. Sun was taken aback. She felt sorry for her son-in-law's suffering, she felt sorry for her daughter's worry, and she also felt sorry for the children's running around. Keep it tight, if we find out, no matter what, let Yubao and Dahu help take care of it, you child, you are not sensible..."

Mrs. Sun gave a wry smile. She will be thirty one after the new year, and she is still a "child..." in the old lady's mouth. The heart is warm, but the nose is sour.

Liang Yuzhong and the others were still unloading the goods in an orderly manner, while Mrs. Sun pulled Mrs. Sun and asked about the situation in detail.Mrs. Sun picked up some and said, "It's all in the past, and now it's all ready. It's Chinese New Year, so let's not talk about it."

Mrs. Sun sighed, and said: "It's common for people who eat firewood, rice, oil and salt to get sick. I don't shy away from those. Yuzhen, there are two reed chickens over there. They were given by Aunt Fatty and Chunhua in the village when I came back this trip. When you go back to your house, remember to bring it with you, and make old hen soup for Daddy Xi'er to replenish your vitality!"

Mrs. Sun agreed with a smile, Jinxi finished watching all the paper-cut window grilles, turned around and asked Sun Yubao's whereabouts with a smile.

"You went out half an hour before you entered the door. You must have gone to your aunt's house. You should be back soon." Mrs. Sun said.

Jin Xi nodded, leaving them laughing, talking and eating in the yard, and went straight into the house.

Compared with the west wing in the backyard of the old Liang's house, this small farmyard in Sunjiagou, with every plant, every tree and every decoration, is more able to affect Jin Xi's emotions.

Because, her real fortune started from here.Many ideas for making a fortune were also born in this room.There is also the crude stove on the left hand side of the door, covered with thick felt grass, which needs to be renovated almost every year, which condenses too much Jinxi's affection.

Countless nights in the dead of night, the small village in the col fell into a deep sleep.And she, Sun Yubao, Sun Yuxia and the others were busy frying tea leaves in the kitchen, making all kinds of novel things in the eyes of people in this world.

At that time, in their eyes, these things may be just items that can make money and improve the life of the family.However, in Jin Xi's eyes, these things are undoubtedly the starting point of her hope, the first step she takes...

Jin Xi walked around the main room, holding the corner of the Eight Immortals table with her palm, looking up and looking around the room.

Although there is basically no one living in the house all year round, it is prone to dust and cobwebs.However, when Mrs. Sun and Sun Yubao came to the house years ago, they must have gone through some meticulous cleaning. The walls, walls, and roof beams above their heads were all clean and familiar scenes.

Jin Xi strolls to Sun Yubao's room, and the curtains on his bed are rolled up from both sides.The quilt inside is next to the inside of the bed, stacked into a neat long shape.The quilt was stretched and smoothed, without a single wrinkle.On the desk at the side, there are many books of various sizes and cloth ends, and a scroll is inserted in an oval dry wooden barrel at the side.Next to the pillow, there was a book. There should be a bookmark inside the book, and the ends of a few tassels were protruding from it.

"Uncle used to like to use leaves as bookmarks..."

Jin Xi stood in front of his bed for a while, but somehow she bent over and opened the book.

The bookmark inside is still a leaf of a camphor tree that has dried like a cicada's wings. A small hole the size of a mung bean is punched under the leaf, and a millennium knot the size of a fingernail is made of a few colored silk threads. There are a few tassels hanging down.

"The texture of the silk thread is really good..." Jin Xi murmured, her understanding of fabrics was far inferior to that of Liang Jinlan.However, for those silk threads that are truly refined and precious, some can be distinguished from others at a glance.It's not just from an insider's perspective, but also has an intuitive touch.

For example, the small handful in front of you.

"Uncle is not Dongfang Bubai. It is impossible to go to the Silk Thread Workshop. Aunt Yuxia, Taozhi, and Mrs. Sun, even if they have silk threads, they are definitely not of such good quality, and this Millennium Knot is exquisitely tied. ... Could it be that it was given by a girl from someone else..."

Thinking of this, Jin Xi casually turned the camphor tree leaf in her hand to the side. On the leaf as thin as a cicada's wing, there were two lines of small characters written in teeny script. When she squinted her eyes carefully, it turned out to be two sentences:

There are wood in the mountains and branches in the wood,
Your heart pleases you, don't you know?

The handwriting is neat and elegant, not Sun Yubao's handwriting.There were only a few sentences of questioning, and there was a faint melancholy in them.It's like a sigh, a sigh of a young girl who is full of spring...

In the courtyard outside, the voices of Sun Yubao and Liang Yuzhong could be heard.

"Has Xi'er entered the house? I'll look for her!" Sun Yubao laughed, and then there were footsteps approaching the room.

Jin Xi hurriedly put the bookmark in her hand back into the scroll and put it back beside the pillow, while Sun Yubao has already stepped into the room calling her name.

Jin Xi pretended to caress his flat sheet, and turned around with a smile.Sun Yubao froze for a moment, the smile on his handsome face remained undiminished, but he quickly glanced at the pillow from the corner of his eye.

"I wanted to come over to look for a book to read. I just stood firm and was about to sit down. I saw that my uncle's bed sheets were neatly smoothed. I'm sorry to make a mess. Now that my uncle is back, do you have any good books? Hurry up and give them to me." Recommend, recommend!" Jin Xi said with a smile, her expression not the slightest bit unusual.

Sun Yubao heaved a sigh of relief quietly, and led Jin Xi to the desk over there, saying, "There is a book of stories, come and see if you like it..."

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After a while, Father Sun and Sun Dahu heard the news and came over.Jin Xi followed behind Sun Yubao, hurried out of the house, and kowtowed to Da Gagong in New Year greetings.

"Where's Yuxia?" Sun asked.

"Yuxia said that she replaced the two handkerchiefs last night, and she will come over after cleaning them." Sun Dahu replied, and turned to talk to Liang Yuzhong.

"It's true, she didn't come out on the seventh day, why is she so impatient, why can't she prepare more handkerchiefs at home?" Mrs. Sun complained to Mrs. Sun with a little displeasure.

"Mother, don't worry, Yuxia is not that frizzy person, as long as she doesn't move the stick, at least she needs to spend more time rubbing it. She likes clean and tidy things the most. It's not like you don't know what your daughter is like!" Smiling and comforting at the side, Mrs. Sun shook her head, and the trace of displeasure on her face disappeared immediately.

"Dahu, you are all here, why don't you see Erhu?" On the other side of the table, Liang Yuzhong also asked Sun Dahu, and everyone on the Sun side turned their eyes to Sun Dahu.Jin Xi also glanced around, she really ignored Sun Erhu after exchanging pleasantries.

Sun Dahu chuckled, and Father Sun pulled out the tobacco stick from his mouth, and said with a smile, "No, girl Qin, her uncle is going to be 36 today, so she got up in the morning and went to Chunhua's house to help, and she will come over later."

When Father Sun said this, everyone understood.In this area, it is believed that there are several checkpoints in a person's life.They are the full moon and one year old after the baby is born respectively.The head of the family is 36 years old, and the old man is 60 years old!

Derived from this, the big birthdays that the local people are very particular about usually include the following: the full moon after the birth of the child, the week, the 36th birthday of the man in charge, the 60th birthday of the old man, the [-]th birthday, the [-]th birthday... …Of course, in this era, the material quality of life and medical and sanitation facilities are generally low, and the average age is far from being comparable to that of modern society. Therefore, living to the age of [-] is considered very good.

As far as the three elders in Jin Xi's family are still alive, Lao Liangtou, Father Sun, and Granny Sun, Lao Liangtou is the oldest, at 63.Father Sun and Mrs. Sun are both in their fifties.The deceased Tan's age also stayed in his 50s.

"The guy from Chunhua's family is over 36. It's fine if we don't catch up. Now that we catch up, we should naturally send a congratulatory gift. Daddy Xi'er, don't you think so?" Mrs. Sun talked to Liang Yuzhong across the table.

Liang Yuzhong was discussing with Sun's father, Sun Dahu, about raising fish in the fishpond. Hearing this, he nodded bluntly and said, "These things are up to you!"

"Mother, this is a silver bag, take it and look at the flowers." Jin Xi said, handing over a bulging purse.

Mrs. Sun nodded with a smile, and turned to discuss with Mrs. Sun what to send over later.Here, Jin Xi rolled her eyes, and Sun Erhu rushed to Aunt Qin Ya's house to help. This was equivalent to confirming the relationship between the two of them with the villagers.Could it be that these two families have communicated with each other about the little mandarin duck in private?

Jin Xi was gearing up and really wanted to ask about the details, but it was inconvenient to ask elders of the opposite sex like Father Sun and Sun Dahu. Besides, they were discussing the fish pond in full swing, so it was not easy to interrupt.

I want to imply that Mrs. Sun asked Mrs. Sun, but Mrs. Sun is asking Mrs. Sun about the gift at this moment.Don't worry, when Aunt Yuxia comes, don't you know everything?Jin Xi comforted herself in this way, turned around and moved the chair to Liang Yuzhong and the others, and listened to these men discussing about raising fish in the fish pond.

This matter is the first one in her big plan to make a fortune this year, so don't be careless!
"Candy, cakes, longevity noodles, just take it from me. I don't have any eggs at home, so I can just convert it into money. Their sons have grown up in the past two years, and they are rushing to get married and ask for a wife." , Sending money is the most useful!" Mrs. Sun analyzed it with Mrs. Sun there, and after discussing it, the two went back to the house to prepare things, and came out after a while.

"Father Xi'er, I've got everything ready. Let's hurry up and take the New Year's greetings with us. Don't delay until the afternoon. It's impolite." Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Sun Coming out of the room, he spoke faithfully to Liang Yu, who was speaking in high spirits at the table.

Father Sun, Sun Dahu, Sun Yubao, Cai Qingyang, and A Cai all listened with gusto, offering their own suggestions and ideas from time to time.Hearing Sun's urging, Liang Yuzhong quickly stopped talking, stood up, patted his clothes, and strode over there to get the New Year's gift.

"I won't take the children with me for the time being. Your father and I will go back as soon as we go. Xi'er and Rou'er take good care of the younger brothers, don't wait for them to pee their pants." Sun Shi did not forget to tell Jinxi brokenly before leaving the house and Jin Rou.

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Even though they are here as guests today, Mrs. Sun and Jinxi will cook in person as usual.Mrs. Sun was in charge of the cooking, while Sun Yuxia and Jinxi below each guarded the fire in the stove.This job is extremely easy, the pine hair is dry and soft, grab a handful with your hand, throw it into the stove, it makes a crisp sound, and the fire is alluring.

The stove is smoky, pots and pans, frying oil, stewing and stewing, the most important thing is everyone's unrestrained talking and laughing, all kinds of voices converge together, playing this cheerful and warm Kitchen time.

Mrs. Sun and Jinrou took the third and fourth children to play around in the kitchen and yard.From time to time, she leaned in and inserted a few words of her own on everyone's topic.

Of course, the topic went back and forth, and finally it fell on the matter of Qin Ya and Sun Erhu.

(End of this chapter)