Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 380 Missing
Jin Xi and Xi Mei came out from the houses where they had been invited, turned around and came back towards Mrs. Sun's house.

As soon as she was sitting in the courtyard outside Mrs. Sun's house, she could see Jinrou under the big maple tree in front of her, with one hand on her waist, and the other grabbing the third boy of Chunhua's family by the ear to reprimand her.

On the side, the second boy shrank his head and stood there with his hands down, not daring to move.

Jin Xi frowned slightly, and let Xi Mei go into the courtyard, while she walked quickly towards the big maple tree in front.

"Boy, it's not time for dinner yet, who sent you to the kitchen? It's dirty and smelly, it's disgusting!"

Jin Rou pulled the ears of the third kid from Chunhua's family so long that the kid's face flushed red, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"Rou'er, what are you talking about here?"

Jin Xi's voice suddenly sounded from behind, Jin Rou turned her head in surprise, and found that Jin Xi had already stood behind her at some point.

Jin Rou was caught and revealed herself, panicked, and quickly withdrew her hand.Seeing Jin Xi, the third boy seemed to see a savior, and hid behind Jin Xi with a squeak.

Jin Xi reached out to catch the third boy, glanced at his red ear, rubbed it distressedly, then took out a handful of dried apricots from his pocket and stuffed it into his pocket.

"Third boy, your mother is lighting a fire at my house, and you are playing around here for a while, and I will call you for dinner later!"

The third boy took the dried apricots, forgetting the pain, and happily ran away with the second boy, and Jin Xi's voice came from behind: "Don't run too far!"

Jin Rou and Jin Xi were spinning around, their first thought was to slip away, before they even reached the wall of the courtyard of Mrs. Sun's house, Jin Xi called to stop her.

"Rou'er, what are you doing? The ears of the third boy are almost turned into rabbit ears by you. If Aunt Chunhua saw you, what would you look like!"

Jin Xi looked displeasedly at Jin Rou who was guilty of wanting to slip away, frowned and said in a low voice.

Jin Rou's pretty face blushed a little, and she snorted.

"Sister, you don't know, those two boys just relied on their mother to light a fire in the stove, so they ran in and made a big fuss, lingering on like a palace, staring at the vegetables in the pot, and their eyeballs were about to fall out. They came out. Mother gave each of them a meaty bone and a handful of peanuts, and then they were dismissed."

Jin Rou angrily explained what happened to the two boys in the kitchen, and Jin Xi helplessly stretched out her hand to caress her forehead.

Chunhua's family is living a tight life. The three boys in the family are not fed enough to wear warm clothes. When they come to the stove of Mrs. Sun's house, their eyes are naturally oily.

"Children, aren't they all greedy? When we were young, when we didn't separate from each other, when we saw Aunt Mei'er eating egg custard, didn't my eyes glisten with greed? We all came here like that, nothing unusual !"

"One yard counts for one yard. Everyone who drags their families will have dinner at my house at noon. I have to eat and drink like this before the meal. I just don't like it. Why?"

Jinrou is still very unconvinced, she pouted angrily, thinking that what she did was justified.

"Rou'er, what's wrong with you? You weren't so petty in the past." Jin Xi walked towards Jin Rou in surprise, and comforted her patiently.

"Aunt Chunhua's family has a deep friendship with our family. It's not a big deal for her boys to come to our house to eat and drink! In the future, don't do such things to those two boys, it seems that we How heartless!"

As Jin Xi was talking, she had already walked in front of Jin Rou. Like before, she habitually raised her hand to touch her sister's head.

The difference from the past is that this time, not only did the younger sister not take her arm obediently and honestly, but turned her head to the side, Jin Xi's hand flew into the air, and she was slightly surprised.But instead of being annoyed, she smiled in relief.

Rou'er also grew up unknowingly, she is no longer the timid little sister who only knows to hide behind her.

"I don't have the bad intentions of your sister. In my eyes, they are just a bunch of worthless mountain pigs, bumpkins! For such a group of people, I want to have a good heart, huh!"

Jin Rou tilted her head, raised her thick eyebrows, the simplicity and honesty in her big eyes disappeared, and a flash of profound disgust flashed across her eyes.

Jin Xi was stunned, and then the patience and kindness on her face disappeared, and her eyes became stern.

"Rou'er, why are you talking!"

"I can speak whatever I want!"

"Do you try again?"

"Hmph!" Jinrou spat heavily, turned her head and flicked her braids and disappeared.

Jin Xi froze on the spot, looking at the pink figure going away and the braids swaying behind her, is this really my simple, honest, kind and timid sister Rou'er?

"Xi'er, why are you standing here in a daze? Let's go with Da Gagong to visit Brother Ah Cai!"

Jin Xi was about to go after Jin Rou, when Father Sun suddenly staggered over from there, holding a snakeskin bag in his hand, which looked like a very important one.

Jin Xi quickly suppressed her thoughts, turned around and went to hold the other end of the snakeskin bag.

"Grandma, you can eat when you come to eat, what are you doing with this bag?"

"Ha, this isn't for you guys. I plan to ask Ximei's daughter to take it home. It's some white rice and wheat, and some dried potatoes. I heard Erhu and the others come back and say that their village is in the deepest part of the old forest. , presumably the crops are not plentiful, these should be useful! It can also be regarded as a thank you gift for rescuing Ah Cai!"

"Duke Da Ga, you are really thoughtful."

Grandfather Sun said with a smile, while working together with Jinxi and the other two, he lifted the snakeskin bag and walked towards the gate of Grandma Sun's house.

Here, Jinxi and Old Father Sun entered the house, and behind, Lizheng, Sun Dagen, and Sun Liufu all came one after another.

The Eight Immortals table was set up in the main room, Wending was pushed out by Ah Gui and Ah Cai, men sat at the table talking and drinking tea, it was very lively.

As for the kitchen, Mrs. Sun and Chunhua were too busy like spinning tops to get away.Mrs. Sun took the third and fourth children to play spinning tops in the yard, and Xi Mei stood beside her with a smile and chatted with Mrs. Sun.

Jinxi was summoned by Sun to go to the kitchen, and Chunhua and Sun surrounded her together, and told Jinxi about the sacred errand.

"Mother, auntie, did I hear correctly? Are you planning to match Sister Xi and Dawei?"

The stove is smoky, like a fairyland.Jin Xi stared in astonishment at the two women wearing turbans above and below the pot table, and she gasped in amazement.

"Why can't we make a match? They are both men and women in their teens, and they are going to have a family after all! Good Xi'er, just help your aunt to set up Ximei's words!"

Chunhua begged in a low voice.

Jin Xi stroked her forehead again, what kind of evil god did she offend today?Everyone is rushing to drill into the hole of 'Daoqimen'?
"Xi'er, your Aunt Chunhua also has her difficulties, you can help if you can." Sun persuaded from the side.

Jin Xi came back to her senses, her eyes turned on Chun Hua's earnest face, not wanting to expire, she decided to tell the truth.

"Auntie, it's not that I don't want to open that mouth for you, but that the elder and younger sister are probably not destined for each other."

Chunhua didn't understand for a while, Sun was surprised, only heard Jinxi continue, and then gave a general account of what Ximei and Jinxi had begged in private before outside.

"That's how things are. Sister Xi fell in love with Ah Cai, and she wanted me to be a lobbyist. I didn't agree. This matter is their own, and it's better for them to handle it themselves."

Chunhua's expression turned gray in an instant, and she sat at the door of the stove with her head drooped, muttering to herself, "Why is it like this? Alas, there is no fate!"

Sun thought about it for a while, and then expressed her thoughts.

"Speaking of which, Ximei's courage is really not comparable to that of ordinary girls. She dared to mention such things to Xi'er by herself. This courage is commendable, but it really needs to be used in life. , it’s too rigid. Dawei’s child is a naive and kind person, and it’s not a bad thing if he doesn’t have a fate! Chunhua, you have to be careful!”

Chunhua smiled wryly, hung the strands of hair that fell in front of her face behind her ears, and sighed again.

Raising children, in this mountain, relying on labor for food.Thinking back when I married Sun Tiesheng and gave birth to three sons in one go, I really felt that my face was covered with gold, no matter where I went, my waist was tougher than those women without sons.

However, men are not only incapable of making money, but also prodigal.Watching the three sons grow up day by day, the expenses of food and clothing are no longer the same as before.

In the past few years, if it wasn't for her niece Qinya's constant subsidy, Chunhua would have been unable to get rid of it long ago.It's not a good thing to have more sons. It's extremely difficult to pull them together, and they have to marry wives one by one.

With such a family, such conditions, and such a notorious father, who would be willing to marry their daughter to suffer?

Even if she really dragged and married them one by one, she still couldn't enjoy the happiness and had to continue to take care of each of them.

These days, I really live without a head!

"Auntie, it's useless to talk about your eldest son. It's better not to touch your nose. Besides, the eldest son is only 11 years old, one year older than my Rou'er, and it's too early to talk about marriage, no Are you in a hurry?"

Jin Xi looks at the dark cloud of sorrow on Chunhua's face, but she can't find a suitable word to say.

In the farming society, what is important is that the family has a big business and the adults have more labor.However, in a poor family like Chunhua's family, it is actually not a good thing to have more children, especially in the few years when the children are about to grow up, it is the worst.

It can be seen that no matter what era they are in, every couple must do what they can according to their own strengths, plan the number of children reasonably, and not blindly.

"Well, what if you can't see it? That's it. This is my Dawei's life. Who would let him be born in a family like ours, and put Sun Tiesheng, a bastard who suffered a thousand dollars, as his father! These three The life of the child itself is not good!"

"Just wait and see, maybe his fate will arrive at some point. If he doesn't, then he is destined to be a bachelor, and there is nothing we can do!"

Chunhua shook her head helplessly, the look in her eyes had been extinguished long ago.

Sun and Jin Xi looked at each other speechlessly, comforting her was useless, so Jin Xi simply rolled up her sleeves and came over to help Sun.

Sun's eyes flickered, tried to change the topic from the children to Sun Tiesheng, and asked about Sun Tiesheng's recent situation.

"I heard that Tie is sick? Why do you still lock him in that room? Humans are not beasts, if you don't let them out, you will be stupid!"

Sun asked, in the small pot in front of her, rapeseed oil was steaming.

Jin Xi stood on the cooking pot beside her, holding a large fence in one hand, and holding a large earthen basin in the other, where flour was exchanged for clean water.Jin Xi cracked two egg whites into it, and mixed them into a sticky batter with a whisk.

Jin Xi's ears were pricked up, and she used the batter as a cover to eavesdrop on Chunhua telling Sun about her man, Sun Tiesheng.

"It doesn't matter if you can't get out and get some ventilation, he's no different from a beast now."

Depressed, Chunhua took a thatched pole and unconsciously folded it back and forth.

"Since the incident with girl Qin, he seemed to be stimulated by something, and he was crazy."

Thinking back to the time when I went on a blind date with him, I was immediately lost by that clean and handsome man.Married from Mayouji to Sunjiagou, gave birth to a son for him, took on the heavy responsibility of the family, and tolerated him like a child.

Now, that man has done all kinds of bad things, and in the end, his consciousness is confused, his good skin in the past is also ruined, he has urine and feces all over his body, and his whole body stinks!
Chunhua couldn't help feeling grief in her heart, and the despair on her face couldn't be concealed.

"Didn't you say a few days ago that Tie Sheng might have collided with some ancestor god and was possessed by evil?"

Sun was very puzzled by this.

Jin Xi, who was mixing the batter, raised her eyebrows slightly. Sun Tiesheng didn't offend the gods, but on her, and she sent A Cai to punish him at night.

Eh, by the way, she has always been curious about this, she didn't know what Ah Cai did to Sun Tiesheng that night, he made Sun Tiesheng look like that, when she turned around and caught Kong, she must ask carefully.

"That's what Aunt Xiuhua in the village said. She even took the ashes and soaked in water to drink. Not only did she fail to exorcise the evil spirits, but Tiesheng's vomiting and diarrhea became more and more serious." Chunhua said helplessly.

"It seems that Auntie Xiuhua can't do it right!" Mrs. Sun frowned.

Jin Xi tilted her lips slightly, Aunt Xiuhua in Aunt Chunhua's mouth was the oldest old woman in Sunjiagou, she was as thin and dry as a skeleton elf, and her face was wrinkled like layers of dead bark .

Jin Xi heard from Mrs. Sun and the others that Aunt Xiuhua was able to communicate with spirits, and she was Wenmi Po in the mountains.

"Who knows, anyway, it's malfunctioning this time!" Chunhua said.

"In the past two days, Tiesheng has developed abscesses, and his face and hands have been scratched by himself. It's really disgusting..."

While listening to her talk, Mrs. Sun rolled the cleaned fish pieces in the batter that Jinxi picked evenly.Put the fish pieces evenly wrapped in the batter into the hot oil in the pan and fry them one by one.

Chunhua stopped talking, the food in the kitchen was fragrant, and the smell of fish pieces overflowed, it was really not suitable for that topic.

"I went to a village on the other side of the mountain two days ago, and bought a pair of traditional Chinese medicine from the old doctor on credit. When I turned around and waited for my piglet to be born, I gave it to the old doctor's house. money."

"Oh? How does the medicine work?" Mrs. Sun took time out of her busy schedule to ask.

"I didn't have time to boil it in the past two days. I said it was a slow fire. I boiled seven bowls of water into one bowl of water. I boiled it as soon as I got up this morning. Just before I came to your house, I put it in a bowl and asked Dawei to give it to me." His father took it, it should be drunk now!"

"Well, don't worry, the medicine is right for the symptoms, and it will take effect soon." Mrs. Sun comforted Chunhua.

Jin Xi secretly sneered, for a person like Sun Tiesheng, he should be tortured to be worthy of the beastly things he did before.No, it's not as good as a beast!

Chunhua nodded gratefully, "I wish I could borrow your good words. Although Tiesheng is a murderer and has done all the things that are inferior to animals, I can't just watch him die. After all, he is three boys. father."

Mrs. Sun looked at Chunhua with red eyes with helpless and complicated eyes, and sympathized with Chunhua's experience in her heart. However, Mrs. Sun really couldn't say anything good about Sun Tiesheng.

"Hey, after all, it's a life. He's here. After all, the children are not orphans without a father." That's all Sun could say.

Jin Xi, on the other hand, just ignored this topic, let alone commenting on it.

Chunhua wiped away her tears and snot, and she could understand Sun and Jinxi's expressions. Thinking of what Sun Tiesheng did back then, and what unreasonable words he said to Sun and the others, Chunhua also felt guilty, and hurriedly stopped talking about this topic .

"Mom, is it almost there?"

Jin Xi looked at the fragrant white rice in the big pot, and the cooked meat and vegetables on the bamboo steamer, and couldn't help but inhale the aroma and asked.

"When the fried fish pieces are out of the pot, we can serve the meal." Mrs. Sun hurriedly said, stirring the squeaky fish pieces in the pot with big chopsticks. Both sides were golden, but the fish pieces were crispy and tender.

"Then I'll go and set the chopsticks and the wine bowl and spoon first." Jin Xi smiled, and then said to Chun Hua: "Auntie, hurry up and get the three boys, I saw them playing around the big maple tree earlier."

"Chunhua, hurry up, the fire in the stove is enough, hurry up and get the children over for dinner!" Sun also urged.

Chunhua responded, stood up, patted the loose hair on the back of her buttocks, walked out of the kitchen quickly, and went to find her sons.Here, the Sun mother and daughter began to neatly prepare the bowls and chopsticks for the meal.

Mrs. Sun poked her head in from the outside and scanned the inside of the stove: "Why did Rou girl disappear in the blink of an eye? She came to the stove before the two boys!"

Jin Xi suddenly thought of what happened under the big maple tree earlier, and her face was a little unhappy. Taking advantage of the time when Aunt Chunhua went out to recruit her three boys, she roughly told Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Sun about what happened under the maple tree. over again.

After hearing this, Mrs. Sun obviously didn't believe it, and said with a smile: "Young girl Rou is only ten years old, and not a few years older than the two boys. I can't tell that the girl was very timid in the past, but now she is protecting food. ?”

Mrs. Sun's expression was not as indifferent as Mrs. Sun's, a trace of calm worry flashed in her eyes, and she said to Jin Xi: "Come and set the dishes, I'll go outside to find your sister!"

"Yuzhen, Yuzhen, what can I do, the sky is falling..."

Chunhua's terrified cry suddenly sounded outside the kitchen, and she plunged in, almost bumping into Mrs. Sun who was about to go out.

"Chunhua, what's the matter with you? If you have something to say, take a breath and speak slowly." Mrs. Sun grabbed Chunhua with her disheveled hair and red eyes, and she was on the verge of going crazy.

"My house was burglarized, and my house was turned into a mess. Before she left, I lost the two hundred coins that Qin Ya gave me, and my son and daughter disappeared. What should I do, my God..."

What?Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Sun turned pale in shock, and Jin Xi was also stunned!
The movement of the kitchen here quickly alarmed the men in the main room who had already set up tables and were preparing to eat.

Wending sent Agui over to inquire about the situation, and Jin Xi asked him to go back and tell Wending in a few words. After a while, Wending came out in a wheelchair.

"Go to Aunt Chunhua's house to see the specific situation." Wen Ding said to Jin Xi.

Jin Xi nodded, and went to help Mrs. Sun hold up Chun Hua, who was out of breath from crying and obviously had no backbone, and said, "Don't worry, Auntie, let's go to your house to see the situation first."

Qin Ya is now engaged to Sun Erhu, so Chunhua and Father Sun are relatives, and Father Sun will naturally go to see if he can help.

As Li Zheng of Sunjiagou, this matter may involve burglary and child abduction, so Li Zhengbo naturally cannot stand idly by.Lao Tzu has gone, so Sun Liufu, as a son, can't sit still.

Ximei is a guest, but this guest's eyes follow Ah Cai.

Both Jin Xi and Wen Ding are going to Chun Hua's house, so Ah Cai is always with him, and Xi Mei likes to watch the excitement, so she doesn't leave her behind. In this way, after half a day of careful cooking, no one will eat the sumptuous meal.

"When this happened, no one was in the mood to eat, so hurry over and have a look!" Father Sun said, and walked towards the gate of the courtyard first.

"Xi'er, I'll go first." Wen Ding explained to Jin Xi, and Jin Xi nodded to him, saying: "I'll be there soon."

Agui pushed Wending to go, Ximei instinctively pulled her heels up, and she stopped suddenly after running two steps away, and turned her head to look behind her.

Ah Cai didn't follow Wending at all, but stood directly behind Jin Xi at the door of the kitchen, like Jin Xi's shadow.

Ximei secretly bit her lip, a sour feeling welled up in her deep eyes.

"Mother, you go over there with Aunt Chunhua first, and I'll put the vegetables on the pot table into the big pot, so that it won't be easy to cool down."

"Hey, good!" Mrs. Sun replied, hurriedly picked up Chunhua, and chased after her out of the courtyard.

"Miss, I'll help you." Ah Cai hurried into the room, wanting to help Jin Xi with the dish.

Jin Xi pursed her lips and smiled at him, and said to Ah Cai: "No need, Xi Mei is a distinguished guest, you greet her well for me, don't neglect her."

Ah Cai glanced sideways at the door of the stove, and was stretching his neck to look at Ximei inside, with a frown on his cold and deep face, he turned around and strode out of the stove.

"Brother Cai, where are you going?" Ximei's voice came from outside the kitchen.

"Aren't you going to watch the excitement? Let's go then!" Ah Cai's cold voice came from a distance, and he was about to walk to the gate of the yard with his head depressed.

Ximei was overjoyed, and shouted: "Wait for me!" She ran after her, and the rings and silver ornaments on her body collided with each other, making crisp and melodious jingling sounds.

(End of this chapter)