farmer's little girl

Chapter 30 Give Big Brother a Happy Future
Lu Guangyi looked at her with her bowed head in complicated eyes, the subtle feeling before, the excitement that was about to move, seemed to be blown away.

He frowned very tightly, very tightly, and wanted to say something, but he hesitated to speak.

He remained silent for a while before calming himself down. After he calmed down, he said, "I am the eldest brother, and I have to take care of my younger siblings, so..."

Pei Gui'e interrupted him abruptly, with a hint of crying in her voice.

"Okay, Brother Yi, I see. It's all because I'm ignorant, so just pretend I didn't say that."

After finishing speaking, she turned her head and ran forward. After a while, she disappeared.

This was in the Pei family's field, and Lu Guangyi was not afraid of her getting lost, so he stood for a while before walking in the opposite direction.

Pei Gui'e ran all the way back to the village without stopping, and when she reached the door of the house, she took a deep breath before walking in.

Her mother, Mrs. Mao, was drying vegetables in the yard. Seeing her, she came back and asked, "Did you tell me about that?"

Pei Gui'e did not speak, and entered the room with her head down.

Mao glanced at her daughter's back, wiped her hands on the apron, and followed her in.

"What's wrong?"

Pei Gui'e buried herself in the quilt, but did not speak.

Mao raised his eyebrows and said, "What's wrong, are you still dating your mother?"

Pei Gui'e suddenly sat up from the kang, and shouted: "I've already said it, I can't bring it up, you have to tell me to tell Brother Yi..." As she spoke, she burst into tears.

Mao's voice became louder: "Why can't I say that? I have never seen a house where the son and daughter-in-law live in an earthen embryo house, and let a girl live in a tile house, and we didn't talk about changing houses with his two younger brothers. What did he say, disagree?"

"What happened to the adobe house? Isn't our family living in an adobe house? Why can't we live in an adobe house?"

"I said you girl is out of your mind or something?!" Mao came to the edge of the Kang and sat down, with a look of hating iron but not steel, "Isn't it because our house is an adobe house that your mother thinks about it?" Let you live in a big tile-roofed house. The Lu family said it well. When you have money, you will build a tile-roofed house. But when the money is rich, others don’t know. Don’t we know? The Lu family has a medicine jar Where."

"The Lu family has separated." Pei Gui'e said.

Mrs. Mao was taken aback for a moment, and then asked: "The family is separated, how did you do it?"

Pei Gui'e told Mao exactly what Lu Guangyi had told her.

Mao's expression was sometimes happy and sometimes sad, and his expression was rich. After listening, he slapped his hands and said: "It's good that this is divided, although the land is a little less, but his family has a craft of making tofu, so I'm not afraid of not being able to make a living." .It’s just that, you have to fight even more.”

Pei Gui'e looked at her with puzzled eyes: "Why do you want to fight even more?"

"Think about it, the Lu family now has six people and only has three acres of land. Although it is supported by the craft of making tofu, it is not as good as before. Moreover, the second boy of the Lu family is not young. If you want to get married, you will have to spend money at that time, when do you think you can save enough money to start a house?"

Mrs. Mao spoke too hastily, swallowed her saliva and continued: "At that time, the second child must be married first, then the problem will come, the second child now lives in a tile-roofed house, and after he gets married, he will build two adobe houses like you , or just live in the one he lives in now. If he lives in the tile-roofed house he lives in now, and you brothers and sisters-in-law still live in the adobe house, do you think it looks good?"

Pei Gui'e was completely stunned.

Mrs. Mao took a deep breath, took her daughter's hand, and persuaded her earnestly: "It's not your mother who taught you to fight with others, but you also know the situation of our family. Since that incident happened to you, our family has been on the outside. I didn't raise my head. Originally I thought about waiting for you to get married, so I could feel proud and elated, but I didn't know that it was delayed for another year. For more than a year, you don't need to tell your mother what is said outside. You know what your mother is doing like this , It’s not just to make your face look good. If you live well, if you live decently, it’s like a slap in the face of those who have laughed at you.”

"But Brother Yi, you also know his character..." Pei Gui'e muttered.

Mrs. Mao pondered for a while: "Don't worry about this. They will come to the house to hire them in a few days. I will come and tell my in-laws when the time comes."

Pei Gui'e nodded.

Lu Guangyi returned home with mixed feelings.

When I entered my house, I found that something was wrong in the house.The room is still the same room, that is, the bedding and furnishings on the kang have changed somewhat.

Lu Guangyi took a closer look, and found that the bedding belonged to his younger sister.

He frowned and walked out the door to the main room.

"Mother, why is my little sister's bedding in my room?"

With a complicated expression on her face, Mei said: "Your sister is in the back room, you can tell her."

Just as she was talking, Lu Jiaoyue came out from the back room, came over with a smile on her face, took Lu Guangyi's arm, and pulled him to the west, while telling him about her plan to change houses.

"no!"

Lu Guangyi's voice was loud, probably because Pei Gui'e had told him about changing houses before, but he didn't get it right, and when he came back, he saw that his sister was going to change houses with him, and he couldn't control his emotions for a while.Seeing his younger sister looking at him in surprise, he hurriedly slowed down the expression on his face, and said in a gentle voice: "Yue'er, why don't you live in a house? It doesn't make sense for your brother to marry and rob you of your house."

Lu Jiaoyue smiled nonchalantly and said, "How could it be regarded as a robbery? I did it willingly. The elder brother's marriage is a great joy. How can you let your elder brother and sister-in-law live in an adobe house, and the younger sister live in a tile-roofed house. What's more, your house It's a new house, and there are two more, and it's me, the younger sister, who took advantage of you."

The more understanding the younger sister was, the more complicated Lu Guangyi's mood became, "I said, how can you take advantage of me if you replace the tile-roofed house with the adobe house? Don't even think about it, brother won't agree."

Lu Jiaoyue sighed, and finally corrected her color.

"Brother, I know you love me, but you have to think about my sister-in-law. Our family has been delayed for a year, and you know what those people outside are talking about. For more than a year, my sister-in-law's family must not Relax. Now that you are going to get married soon, naturally you have to do it in a dignified manner. Think about it, there must be a lot of people at home. They saw that we lived in a big tile house, and let you live in an adobe house as newlyweds. My sister-in-law's face Can there be light? Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about your sister-in-law."

This is the reason, but because of what happened before, Lu Guangyi always felt a little uncomfortable.

"The situation at home is like this, and your elder brother is only so capable. If she doesn't want to, then don't marry into our family!"

Listening to this tone, it seems that there is a taste of anger.

Lu Jiaoyue studied the expression on her eldest brother's face, and asked curiously, "Brother, what's wrong? What happened?"

Lu Guangyi paused, then shook his head, "It's nothing."

Lu Jiaoyue didn't believe it, and guessed: "Could it be that sister-in-law also mentioned this to you?"

She knew that her eldest brother was going to see her sister-in-law today, and this was no secret at home, and it was not difficult to guess with the excitement of her eldest brother when he mentioned the matter of changing houses.In fact, Lu Jiaoyue also had this kind of worry for a long time, which is why she changed houses. She still remembered that in her previous life, her sister-in-law was pushed back one after another because of her marriage, and she felt resentful.

Once suspicions arise in people's hearts, many unnecessary conflicts will arise. In this life, she only wants to eliminate those bad things and give her eldest brother a happy future.

Lu Guangyi looked a little embarrassed, and his voice lowered: "Don't pay attention to her, she is not sensible."

Then there it is.

Lu Jiaoyue smiled understandingly, and said, "Brother, don't say that. It's normal for a sister-in-law to make such a request. After all, we all live in tile-roofed houses. It doesn't make sense for you to live in adobe houses. If you all live in There is no such thing as an adobe house.”

She still understands the principle of not worrying about scarcity but inequality, especially in the family where there are not only elder brothers and males, but also younger brothers and younger brothers.During the time when she came back from her new life, Lu Jiaoyue experienced many things, so she also learned a lot of principles.

"Okay, brother, don't compete with me. You have loved me since you were a child, and you just treat me as a younger sister doing something for you. Your house was built by you and your father with great effort. You don't know, I've been greedy for a long time, so just let me." She pulled Lu Guangyi's sleeve, shaking it coquettishly.

These words are not false. When Lu Minghai built these two adobe houses, he felt guilty and said that he wanted to build them better.Lu Guangyi knew the craft of a mason, and this room was his wedding room, so he devoted all his attention to these two rooms.

They are also adobe houses. The adobe used in these two houses is the best yellow mud selected by Lu Guangyi, and chopped straw is added to it over and over again. exposed to the sun.After the soil embryo was dried, mud was applied to the soil embryo. A total of five or six layers were applied. From the outside, it was not as smooth as a soil embryo.It is so much better than those shoddy adobe houses with extremely low roofs.

When building a house, stones are used to lay the foundation and corners of the walls, and then sticky glutinous rice paste is used as glue, and pieces of soil embryos are piled up tightly. The beams, doors and windows are also the best choice. Made of good wood.After so many processes, it is not bad compared to ordinary brick and tile houses, at least the thought that went into it is staggering.

It's a pity that these outsiders don't know about it, and let people see that these are just two adobe houses, but they don't know that there is a world inside the adobe house.

Lu Guangyi believed that his sister said this house was good, but he didn't believe it if he said that he had been envious for a long time.Who would live in an adobe house instead of a tile-roofed house.

He smiled wryly and said: "Little sister, brother understands your kindness, but brother can't change this house with you."

"Why can't it?" Lu Jiaoyue pretended to be arrogant and said: "That's it, anyway, all the things in my house have been moved to your side, and there are some big things left, brother, wait a while Move it here for me, I'll go and tidy up there first." After saying that, the man went out.

Lu Guangyi stood in the room for a while, then came out.Mrs. Mei was sitting on the kang tidying up her things, she looked up at her eldest son, and said, "It's rare for a girl to have such thoughts, so don't argue with her."

After a pause, she said again: "Just remember your sister's kindness."

Lu Guangyi didn't speak, but nodded solemnly.

In the evening, when Lu Guangzhi came back, he found that his eldest sister had changed houses.At that time, he didn't say anything, he took a moment to sneak into Lu Jiaoyue's room.

Lu Jiaoyue was packing things in the room.

In fact, this house is really pretty good. It doesn't have the rough walls of ordinary adobe houses at all, and it looks smoother than the walls of brick and tile houses.The beams of the house are also high, not cramped at all.When Lu Guangyi moved the furniture from Lu Jiaoyue's room, the originally empty room looked very different.

"Sister, did the Pei family make things difficult for you?"

Lu Guangzhi didn't guess that it was because of the eldest brother, he knew the temperament of the eldest brother, and he also understood the temperament of the eldest sister.Such a sudden change of house, don't think about it, it must be something from the Pei family, the elder sister didn't want the elder brother to be caught in the middle of the embarrassment, so she took the initiative to move here.

"This person is making trouble before she gets married. What does she want to do?" Lu Guangzhi said angrily.

Lu Jiaoyue frowned, tugged at her younger brother, and reprimanded: "What are you talking about, she's our sister-in-law, isn't there any sense of seniority?"

Lu Guangzhi said disdainfully: "Seniority is not for this kind of person. She bullies you before she gets married. When she gets married, she will squeeze you out of place. No, I'll go talk to big brother After all, our family can't have this kind of woman."

Lu Jiaoyue hurriedly grabbed him: "Stop it, why is your temper getting more and more irritable? I said that the Pei family made things difficult for me? Right from the start, they wronged people indiscriminately. Yes The house I want to change with my elder brother has nothing to do with the Pei family."

Lu Guangzhi didn't believe it.

Lu Jiaoyue could only analyze the pros and cons to him.

After listening, Lu Guangzhi curled his lips: "Eldest sister, you are a good-natured person, so you can't live in an adobe house? I remember that Pei's family lived in an adobe house. How come it becomes expensive when you come to our house?!"

Lu Jiaoyue glared at her younger brother, "If you speak so meanly, Eldest Sister will get angry. I won't say anything, I am the one who is willing to change houses with Eldest Brother, and Eldest Brother is not willing, and I force him to exchange houses with me." Yes, it has nothing to do with the Pei family."

Lu Jiaoyue was a little thankful that she didn't tell her younger brother that the Pei family had raised this matter with her eldest brother today, otherwise, with her second younger brother's temper, she would have exploded again.

"Okay, okay, don't you think this room is pretty good, don't you know how much effort Eldest Brother has put into it?" Lu Jiaoyue looked around in satisfaction, and passed by her drastically changed room, "Anyway, Eldest Sister is very nice. If you like it, don't be surprised." After a pause, she said again: "Also, after the sister-in-law gets married, take your temperament away, don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face, don't let me It's difficult for our elder brother to be caught in the middle."

Lu Jiaoyue vaguely remembered that in her previous life, her second younger brother had often fought with her sister-in-law, and it was because her sister-in-law was delayed due to her marriage, and she always got into trouble with her elder brother.And the eldest brother is caught in the middle, neither on the left nor on the right, it is very difficult, so this time Lu Jiaoyue is going to tighten the strings for the second brother first, so as not to cause him to do bad things again.

Lu Guangzhi was silent for a while, and then said: "Sister, I have wronged you. Don't worry, I will make more money in the future, build a few more big tile houses for our family, and then I will live in two for you. After you get married, the house will also be given to you Keep it."

Lu Jiaoyue couldn't help laughing: "Okay, okay, the eldest sister is waiting."

In fact, she didn't take it to heart, because she still wanted to send her younger brother to school after saving enough money.Although the second brother is a bit older, as long as he has the heart, it shouldn't be difficult.

Lu Jiaoyue woke up to the sound of the millstone turning.

She opened her eyes and found that it was still dark.

With a move in her heart, she put on her clothes and got up from the kang, pushed open the door, and walked out with the faint light outside.

It was her father, Lu Minghai was grinding beans.

There is a large stone mill in front of Erfang’s house. Every day, Lu Minghai uses the stone mill to grind beans, and then makes tofu for sale.

It takes a lot of work to make tofu, especially now that the family is separated, Lu Minghai not only makes tofu, but also works in his own field, so he has to get up every day when the cock crows.

Lu Minghai didn't turn on the lamp, so with the weak light, Lu Jiaoyue could only see a black shadow moving.

"Who?" The sound of stone grinding stopped abruptly.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Minghai saw the person coming clearly through the dim light, and couldn't help saying in surprise: "Yue'er, why are you up at this time? But dad woke you up?"

"No, it's because my daughter can't sleep by herself." After saying that, Lu Jiaoyue turned around and went back to the room, took an oil lamp, lit it, and brought it out.

Under the hazy yellow light, Lu Minghai was standing shirtless and sweating profusely in front of the stone mill.

When the light came on, he seemed to realize that he was a bit indecent, so he hurried to the side to pick up the clothes that were casually hung on the rope, and put them on.

"Why are you up now, but are you hungry?" He walked up to Lu Jiaoyue with concern and asked.

Lu Jiaoyue shook her head, and carefully suppressed the glint in her eyes: "Father, why did you wake up so early?"

In the past, Lu Jiaoyue knew that her father made tofu every day, but she didn't know the process. Every day, she would sleep until dawn before getting up. Naturally, she didn't know that when she was still asleep, her father would get up and grind the beans Made tofu.Seeing Lu Minghai like this now, what else does she not understand?

The ancients said that the three major hardships in life are to sell tofu by blackmailing and punting boats.

In the past, her father always acted as if nothing had happened, and she thought that the ancients boasted. Now, it seems that it is not possible to not work hard. In this weather, she still feels a little cold even wearing clothes, but her father is so hot that he is still shirtless. Sweating profusely.

Lu Jiaoyue had a sore nose again, not only did her father get up early every day to make tofu, but she also had to carry the tofu for tens of miles to sell everywhere. She had a little spare time and was also busy with field work.

"Father, the family is separated now, so you don't have to work so hard."

While driving his daughter to the house, Lu Minghai smiled perfunctorily and said: "Yue'er knows that she loves daddy, and daddy knows, you go back to sleep for a while, it's still cold, be careful of catching a cold."

Helpless, Lu Jiaoyue could only go back to the house.

In fact, why didn't she know what her father was thinking? The elder brother hadn't collected enough money to get married. Although there was land there to support it, the land was the foundation for the country people to live and live. It was best not to sell it, so her father still insisted I want to make more money back.

Thinking of it this way, it was even more difficult to calm down. She took out the sewing dustpan from the kang cabinet by the light of the oil lamp, rummaged through it, and took out a piece of embroidered cloth.

The embroidered cloth is a piece of high-quality gauze with a moon-white background and is as light as smoke. It was taken out by Lu Jiaoyue from a skirt given to her by her grandmother, Liu Shi.

This skirt is Liu's clothes from the bottom of the press box, and it is well maintained. Every year, Liu will take it out to dry, and then put it away in the cabinet.When she was a child, Lu Jiaoyue saw her grandmother rubbing this skirt more than once, as if she was remembering something.Later, when Lu Jiaoyue grew up, Mrs. Liu gave this skirt to her.Lu Jiaoyue didn't want it at first, but grandma said that a dead thing is nothing, and clothes should always be worn, so she took it.

Originally, Lu Jiaoyue didn't want to take off the skirt, but she couldn't find a suitable fabric and didn't have the money to buy it, so she changed her mind.But she was ingenious, even though she removed a piece of lining from the skirt, it didn't damage the main body of the skirt, and it couldn't be seen from the outside.

I saw that this piece of embroidered cloth had already been embroidered on it. On the front was a picture of a cat playing with a butterfly, turned it upside down, and on the other side was embroidered a picture of a butterfly wearing a flower.

Lifelike, breathtaking.

It is double-sided embroidery.

This double-sided embroidery was handed down to Lu Jiaoyue by Liu's family. In fact, if someone who knows it knows that Lu Jiaoyue uses authentic Suzhou embroidery, it can be seen from the pattern, color matching and stitching.

Embroidering this kind of double-sided embroidery is extremely labor-intensive and eye-intensive. It takes full concentration to ensure that the front and back sides do not show thread ends, and the cloth surface is neat and even.

In her previous life, Lu Jiaoyue knew this kind of embroidery method, but her embroidery was not very good. Later, she only worked hard on it because Du Lian's scientific examination cost more and more money later on.

Because ordinary embroidery cannot be sold at a good price, only this kind of embroidery, which can be called a school of excellence, can be sold at a high price.It's a pity that it takes a lot of effort to embroider this thing. In her previous life, Lu Jiaoyue embroidered day and night, and she could only produce a few pieces of embroidery a year.The selling price also varies, ranging from dozens of taels for small pieces, to one or two hundred taels for large pieces.

Like the double-sided embroidered fan in Lu Jiaoyue's hand at this time, it is a small piece of embroidery.Firstly, she didn't have much time and was waiting for the money; secondly, she didn't know whether the big ones could be sold in the county.After all, this is not Dongchang Mansion, nor the capital city, and she is not sure if anyone who knows the goods can buy it.

Rubbing the piece of double-sided embroidery in her hands, Lu Jiaoyue's heart finally calmed down.

Soon, she will have money, and her father won't have to work so hard.

In a daze, Lu Jiaoyue fell into sleep again.

When she woke up again, it was already dawn, and Mrs. Mei came over to wake her up for breakfast.

She hurriedly got up from the kang, fetched water to wash up, and when she reached the main room, the food was already set on the table.

Breakfast is hot soy milk and corn tortillas, served with two plates of vegetables fried in meat oil.The soy milk was specially scooped out by Lu Minghai when he was making tofu in the morning. It was very fragrant and delicious, and it was delicious without adding sugar.

Lu Minghai, Lu Guangyi, Lu Guangzhi and his younger brother Wulang had already sat down at the table, and Mrs. Mei was scooping soybean milk for them.When it was Lu Jiaoyue's turn to scoop it, she deliberately added some sugar to it.This was Lu Jiaoyue's special treatment at home, the men and women next to her didn't say anything, but Lu Jiaoyue felt extremely embarrassed, and let her eat alone after annoying with Mei.

Mrs. Mei didn't take it seriously, and said: "You are the only girl in our family, and no one can treat you harshly."

Several men, big and small, nodded, even the seven-year-old Goro took it for granted.

Lu Jiaoyue was so ashamed that she wanted to get into the cracks in the ground, but in desperation, she could only forcefully bring the bowl in front of Wulang to her, and then gave Wulang the soy milk in her own bowl.

"Sister, I'm a man, so I don't eat candy." In fact, Goro craves it very much, and there is no child who doesn't want to eat candy.

Lu Jiaoyue was inexplicably sad, and forced a smile: "My sister has grown up too, so I don't eat candy, Wulang, you are still young, so I will eat it for you."

"Okay, okay, it's like mother abused you, come, come, everyone." Mei picked up the jar of sugar, and added some to everyone's bowl, even Lu Minghai's bowl I didn't miss it.

Lu Minghai looked at his wife and smiled innocently.

The daughter-in-law hasn't looked at him for a long time, and she doesn't seem to be angry anymore.

Lu Jiaoyue hugged Mei's arm and said coquettishly: "Mother is the best to us, she didn't abuse us, it's just that my daughter is such a grown-up, so she has the nerve to eat alone."

"Hmph, you're the only one!" Mei snorted and laughed too.

(End of this chapter)