farmer's little girl

Chapter 36 Du Lian was beaten to build the courtyard wall

When she got home, before she could tell her mother that she was back, Lu Jiaoyue went into her room.

Until now, her heart is still pounding hard.

She didn't want to think about it, but she couldn't help it. She lived two lives, and she was married in her previous life, so she understood Han Jin's thoughts almost instantly.

Uncle Jinzi actually has that kind of meaning for her!
Thinking back on all the things before, Lu Jiaoyue realized that she was too slow, and she had clues before, but she was so slow that she didn't notice it.

How to do?How to do?
He is my uncle's friend, and I want to call him uncle, but he...

"Yue'er, what are you doing?"

Sitting in the room, Mrs. Mei saw her daughter hurried in from the outside, without saying a word, she got into the room.Thinking that her daughter just came back from outside, she couldn't help feeling a little worried.

She opened the door and walked in, looking suspiciously at her flushed daughter: "Yue'er, are you alright?"

Lu Jiaoyue didn't dare to see her mother, "No, nothing."

"Why is your face so red?"

Lu Jiaoyue was taken aback for a moment before she came to her senses and pretended to wipe off her sweat: "It's too hot outside."

"You didn't say a word when you came back, mother thought something was wrong with you."

"I'm thirsty, I'm in a hurry to go back to the house to drink water, mother." As she said that, Lu Jiaoyue touched the teapot on the table and poured herself a glass of water to drink.

"The sun is very hot these days, so don't run outside if you have nothing to do. If you have no one to talk to, you can ask Gui Ya to come to our house. Why do you always run to her house recently?"

Lu Jiaoyue hurriedly found an excuse and said: "Mother, Gui Ya has to work at home, how can she go out casually."

Mei Shi sighed and said yes.

The situation of the Chen family is even more chaotic than that of the Lu family, and Gui Ya's grandmother is unclear. Gui Ya will take care of her younger siblings when she is young, and she will help the family with work when she grows up. How could she run out when she has time? Play.Even if he was free, he didn't dare to come out. Grandma Guiya saw her and would be scolded again.

"Be careful yourself, don't cause trouble for Gui Ya." My daughter always goes to see Gui Ya, and it must delay her work. Grandma Gui Ya is hard to say in front of people. To implicate the other party.

She nodded: "My daughter knows."

After Mei Shi went out, Lu Jiaoyue let out a sigh of relief.

She went to the dressing table and sat down, took out a small porcelain bottle from her sleeve, looked at it, opened the dowry box and put it in.After thinking about it, he took it out again, went to the kang to open the kang cabinet, stuffed the bottle in, and pressed it with his clothes.

She sat on the kang for a while, when she suddenly thought of something, she went to the dressing table and picked up the bronze mirror to look at it, and she saw that her cheeks were still slightly red.

Remembering the wasteful words he said, he went to the kang cabinet and took out the small bottle.

After rubbing it in his hand for a while, he finally let out a deep sigh.

How did things become like this.

Early in the morning, Cui woke up.

After breakfast, she tidied herself up deliberately, and then drove old man Lu away to make arrangements, and then the old couple sat in the room and waited.

During this period, she went out to look at it three times, and asked Hu's food twice, because she was too busy and anxious, and said something critical to Old Man Lu, saying that his clothes were ruined and asked him to change again.Seeing that she was happy today, old man Lu didn't bother to argue with her, so he changed his clothes again.

There is a custom for newlyweds to return home in three dynasties, and today is the day when Lu Guili returns home.

Yesterday, Mrs. Cui ordered his granddaughter-in-law, Mrs. Hu, to inform the people from the third room that they must come over today, but the people from the second room did not notify them, and everyone knew that they would not come.

When it was almost time, Lu Guili and Du Lian appeared at the gate of Lu's house.

Lu Guili was dressed in peach pink, with a shy and timid expression. Du Lian was carrying a few things in his hands, and the two walked in hand in hand.

Seeing this, Cui was finally relieved.

Ever since her daughter got married, she has been worried. Now it seems that the Du family didn't treat her badly.In this way, Cui was relieved, and she gave the eldest daughter-in-law Hu a grateful look. If it wasn't for the eldest daughter-in-law, this marriage would not have been possible.

At this moment, all the men from the Lu family came over, as did Lu Mingshan, and they were talking with Du Lian.Lu Mingchuan asked Du Lian about his studies. Although his nephew became a brother-in-law, Lu Mingchuan still cared about Du Lian.

Cui took her daughter into the back room.

"How is Du Lian treating you?"

Lu Guili paused, then nodded shyly.

"It's okay to treat you well, mother can rest assured."

In the main room, old man Lu looked at his son-in-law who spoke well with satisfaction.

Although there were too many unsatisfactory things in this marriage, after all, the dust has settled now, as long as Du Lian can live well with the second girl, it is also a surprise to him.

only--

Seeing that there was a room missing in the room, old man Lu's expression darkened unavoidably.

After Du Lian answered Lu Mingchuan's question, he seemed to ask casually: "Why don't you see the second brother's family?" The second brother naturally refers to Lu Minghai. Du Lian and Lu Guili are already married, and they were originally called the second uncle Lu Minghai , now changed the title.

There was a moment of silence in the room, and the old man Lu said: "They haven't come over for something, so don't mention them."

Mrs. Hu hastily changed the topic tactfully, but Du Lian didn't ask tactfully again.

Lu Jiaoyue didn't wake up until mid-sunlight today.

I tossed and turned for most of the night last night, and didn't fall asleep until it was bright outside, so I got up late in the morning.

Mrs. Mei didn't say anything about her, her daughter has become much more obedient and sensible these days, and she also knows how to help the family with work.Mrs. Mei really couldn't beat her daughter, so she asked her to help with the housework. Seeing her daughter getting up from morning to night and following her in and out of the house, Mei's heart ached a lot.Seeing that Lu Jiaoyue slept for a while today, not only was she not displeased, but she was very happy, and repeatedly told Wulang not to disturb his sister.

After Lu Jiaoyue got up, she still felt a little dizzy in her brain, so she patted her face with her hands twice, and went to the mirror to take a picture, and sure enough, there were some dark spots under her eye sockets.

"Could it be that you secretly did embroidery work last night?" Mrs. Mei asked suspiciously.

"No mother, I don't know what happened. I lay on the kang and couldn't fall asleep until the middle of the night." Lu Jiaoyue subconsciously touched the bottom of her eye sockets, and now she doesn't remember where she was last night. What are you thinking, why did you go to bed so late.

Thinking of what day it is today, Mei's face froze, and she subconsciously looked at her daughter's face.

"There's some hot food in the pot, go and eat." She didn't express her concerns.

Lu Jiaoyue nodded and went to the kitchen.

She only ate by herself, and she didn't bother to bother, so she ate in the kitchen.

After eating, take out the dishes and wash them.

There is no well in Lu’s house, and the drinking water is collected from the well in the center of the village on weekdays. However, Lu Minghai and Lu Guangyi have always been diligent. The first thing they do every morning is to fill up the water tank at home. Yes, so there is never a shortage of water at home.

Lu Jiaoyue scooped up some water with a ladle, put it into the basin, and then washed the dishes.The breakfast is light, there is no oil, and it is easy to wash.

She washed the dishes, dried her hands and stood up. As soon as she looked up, she saw someone standing in front of her.

It's Du Lian.

Du Lian had never carefully looked at the grown-up Lu Jiaoyue.

He still understands the principle of seeing no evil.Especially when she grows up and he grows up too, he is busy studying and studying, and when he comes to Lu's house once in a while, he can only catch a glimpse from a distance.So Du Lian always knew that Lu Jiaoyue was beautiful, but he never had a specific idea of ​​how to be beautiful.

This was the first time that Du Lian looked at Lu Jiaoyue so closely.

He was a little shocked.

Fair and delicate skin, raven black hair, petal-like lips and big watery eyes.Slender and delicate, like a weak willow facing the wind, or like a begonia in full bloom.

She really doesn't look like a country girl.

Du Lian had this feeling earlier, which is why he would not object to marrying a country girl, but this feeling is even worse at this time.Du Lian also went to drink flower wine with his classmates several times, but none of those girls was more beautiful than Lujia Jiaoyue.

Du Lian couldn't help feeling distressed, this person should belong to him.

If it is said that Du Lian's perfunctory words to his mother were clear but not broken, he couldn't bear to hurt her mother's heart, maybe he also had a little hope in his heart, but that feeling was not strong.But at this time, he really hoped that everything would come true, as long as he could be admitted to the scholar, he would definitely be able to marry her.

A burst of impulse suddenly rose in his heart, and he himself came here because of impulse. He really wanted to know what kind of reaction she would have after her marriage was robbed.In the past two days at home, he thought of her more times than before, especially when he saw the sick new wife, he couldn't help but think that she might be extremely sad, after all, she is very sad in this neighborhood. There is no better son than him in the village.

Looking at the other party's complicated, shocked, and faintly sad eyes, Du Lian misunderstood.

He was both excited and affectionate: "Jiaoyue, it's all my fault for hurting your heart. Wait for me, I will definitely marry you in." He thought, she must want to marry him, if Otherwise why is this so.

Lu Jiaoyue, who was in a complicated mood, was stunned. What was this person talking about?
"Don't worry, I'll marry you when I pass the exam."

marry her?

If Lu Jiaoyue's impression of Du Lian in her previous life was that he was a smart man, then now she is very suspicious of whether he has a brain problem.

marry her?How to marry?Is he dreaming and still awake?

Sure enough, Du Lian was just like his hidden nature, selfish and stupid, arrogant and conceited, but because he was concealed by his humble gentleman, many people couldn't see his true face.

Just as she was about to say something, she saw the other party showed excitement and stepped forward to grab her hand.Lu Jiaoyue wanted to shake it off right away, but it was a pity that the opponent's grip was too tight and she couldn't shake it off for a while.

"You let me go!"

"Jiaoyue, listen to me, I had to marry your sister-in-law..."

"Whether you marry my sister-in-law or not is none of my business!"

"Jiaoyue, I thought you were the one I married, but I don't know..."

At this moment, a voice sounded like a thunderstorm behind Du Lian.

"Let go of my sister!"

Immediately afterwards, Du Lian was pulled away violently and fell to the ground with a punch.

It was Lu Guangyi.

As soon as Lu Guangyi came back from the field, he saw someone pestering his younger sister. Before he could react, the person rushed up.

"You are so brave, who told you to bully my sister?!"

Du Lian is just a frail scholar, while Lu Guangyi has been working in the fields all year round, and he has a lot of strength.After being punched by the opponent, he was stunned.He shook his head vigorously several times before he regained some clarity.

"Misunderstood, misunderstood..."

"Misunderstand your mother's egg!"

Lu Guangyi has always been a simple and honest person, this is the first time he has scolded someone.He pulled his sister behind him, picked up the hoe that was on the side, and swung it.

Du Lian was so frightened that he couldn't bear the shit, and he didn't care about the pain on his face, so he scrambled and hid aside.

"I'm Du Lian, I didn't treat her lightly..."

"Du Lian?" Lu Guangyi stopped what he was doing and turned to look at his sister.

Lu Jiaoyue was touched by Du Lian, and it was as disgusting as eating a fly. While wiping her hands vigorously, she accused: "Brother, he ran out of nowhere and said that he wanted to marry me, and even forced my hand."

"I'll beat you to death, you bastard!"

Without further ado, Lu Guangyi picked up his hoe and beat Du Lian again.

Mrs. Mei, who was cleaning up the house in the east, ran out when she heard the noise.

"Boss, what's the matter, what's the matter?"

"Mother, this apprentice is bullying my sister!"

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Mei immediately raised her willow eyebrows, picked up the dustpan beside her, and went after Du Lian to beat him.

"Where did the little bastard come to my house to bully my daughter..."

When the people from the upper room heard the noise and ran over, Du Lian had already been beaten with a bruised nose and a swollen face. Fortunately, Lu Jiaoyue was afraid of her life, so she kept dragging her brother and didn't let him get on the hoe, otherwise Du Lian's life would be in danger.

Seeing Du Lian's wretched pain, Lu Guili burst into tears and ran to his side to see his injuries.

The old man Lu was so angry that his beard trembled: "Mr. Mei, what are you doing? This is Guili, our uncle."

"My aunt's grandpa has a leg, where did you come from, a little bastard, who ran to my mother's house to bully my daughter... Ah!" Mei quickly realized, "Is he Du Lian?"

After reacting, Mei became even more angry, and slapped the dustpan in her hand on the ground.

"Boss, hit me, beat this shameless little bastard to death! If you beat him to death, I will pay for his life!" Mrs. Mei was also confused, and used all the country's foul language.

As soon as Lu Guangyi heard this, he picked up his hoe without saying a word, and wanted to go forward to shoot Du Lian.

Lu Mingchuan stepped forward and grabbed him, and said anxiously: "Yi boy, what are you doing!" Then he said anxiously to Mrs. Mei: "His second aunt, what's going on? .” Apparently he didn’t hear Mei’s scolding just now.

Mei was out of breath, pointed at Lu Mingchuan and said, "Boss, come and tell him!"

Du Lian is the nephew of the Dafang couple, obviously the Mei family also blamed Lu Mingchuan.

Lu Guangyi didn't delay, and told what he saw.Fearing that people would not believe it, she asked Lu Jiaoyue to come forward and complete the whole matter.

After hearing the ins and outs of the matter, Old Man Lu and Lu Mingchuan's faces were ashen, Cui did not dare to say: "Impossible, it must be Yue girl who wronged Du Lian!"

Qiao Shi muttered to the side: "Why should others wrong him?"

Hu's face standing on the side was dark and inexplicable.

Mei was laughed at by her mother-in-law, and she didn't bother to talk to the other party anymore. She ran to the side and picked up the broom standing in the corner, and said while pushing people away: "Get out, our family doesn't welcome you people. Go to the wrong place again, come here and I will hit one. I have seen nonsense, but I have never seen nonsense with open eyes, I have learned a lot today!"

Although Mrs. Mei didn't name her, everyone present knew that she was scolding Mrs. Cui.After all, she is her mother-in-law, so Mei can't just point at her nose and scold her.She is not afraid of anything, but she doesn't want to make it difficult for a man to be caught in the middle.

The crowd hurried away in desperation.

Mei was so angry that he threw away the broom in his hand, and cursed: "Second brother is right, no one in the Du family is a good guy! I never thought this kid was like this before, why is he like this now?"

Lu Jiaoyue also didn't care about thinking about the incident just now, she hurried forward to appease her mother.

On the other side of the room, the faces of everyone in the room are not good-looking.

Lu Guili was still crying, while Du Lian was covering his bruised and swollen face, humiliating gentleness one by one.

Old man Lu slapped the table and said angrily, "Du Lian, come and tell me what's going on!"

The face under Du Lian's fingers froze for a moment, and he said inarticulately: "That was a misunderstanding, they wronged me."

Hu persuaded from the side: "Father, Lian'er was underestimated by his daughter-in-law. He is not the kind of person who would do such a thing."

Du Lian nodded again and again, and then the whole thing came out of his mouth and changed to another version.

According to what he said, he went to the latrine, and he came out of the latrine under the guise of going to the latrine.

Speaking of this hut, I have to say that the Lu family's hut is built behind the house, next to the vegetable field.To get to the house from the upper house, you have to pass by the second house and go to the vegetable field behind.

Du Lian said that he went to the latrine at the back, but he met Lu Jiaoyue, who stopped him and asked why his family ruined their relationship.So he explained to her that while the two were talking, Lu Guangyi came.Lu Guangyi came up and wanted to beat him without saying a word, and Lu Jiaoyue also fanned the flames and said that he had belittled her, that's why things developed like that.

After the words were finished, everyone was amazed.

According to Du Lian, it is indeed possible to win people's trust, because the Du family originally negotiated marriage with the second room, but temporarily replaced it with Lu Guili.It's normal for Lu Jiaoyue to question her and get revenge after losing this marriage.

The complexions of old man Lu and Cui's immediately softened, and Lu Guili stopped crying, but complained that the second sister-in-law was too much, beating people without asking indiscriminately.He also said that Lu Jiaoyue was really outrageous, since Du Lian was her uncle.

But some people don't believe that Hu's is one, and Qiao's is another.

Of course, it can't be said that everyone believed Du Lian's words, but with this explanation, it will look better on the face, so as not to make a scene where the uncle and nephew snatch the husband and son-in-law, or if the uncle has any thoughts about the niece, the face will be embarrassed. Not good looking.

It is reasonable to say that the new uncle and the newlyweds will stay at home for a day when they return home, so it is better to get back before dusk.But the Lu family didn't keep two more people. After lunch, they let them go, not even staying for dinner.

After eating lunch and returning to the house, Mrs. Qiao said to Lu Mingshan, "This joke has become a big one. It's all like this. Your parents still want to cover it up."

Lu Mingshan spat at her: "Say a few words for me."

Qiao Shi rolled her eyes and said nothing.

Lu Jiaoxing, who was kept in the house by Mrs. Qiao and didn't even let her go to the upper room for lunch, had a very strange expression on her face after hearing the whole story from her younger sister Lu Jiao'e.

When Lu Minghai came back at night, after hearing what happened today, his face was frighteningly dark.

He slapped the table and said angrily: "Building the wall, the boss has put aside what he is doing these two days, let's build the courtyard wall first."

"Okay, Dad."

It is said that it is building a courtyard wall, but in fact it is not so easy.

First of all, the yard is not easy to divide. When the family was separated, Old Man Lu divided the house where the second room lived into the second room. The vegetable field behind the second room was divided between the second room and the third room. The vegetable field in front of the second room was reserved for his own use. .Moreover, the public hut of the Lu family is still in the vegetable field of the second and third bedrooms, so it is not easy to manage only one item.

In addition, to build a wall, the adobe must be laid first, and the adobe cannot be finished in a day or two. After laying the adobe, it must be exposed to the sun before it can be used after drying.Regardless of the size of the project, it will take a long time.

Lu Minghai and Lu Guangyi, father and son, didn't bother, since they decided to do it.The hut was in the vegetable field of the second room, so he greeted the couple of the third room, and said that he would dig one for the third room in their vegetable field. Anyway, the third room would have to be composted in the future, and the hut would have to be built, so we couldn't always be with each other. Two rooms are shared.

As for the upper room, Lu Minghai did not do too much, but greeted his elder brother Lu Mingchuan in advance, saying that he would dig one for them in their vegetable field, after all, the second room occupied the family's hut.

Lu Mingchuan didn't make things difficult for him, and readily agreed, and even helped Lu Minghai with his work.He naturally advised the second younger brother not to do such a terrific thing, to build a courtyard wall, so as not to hurt the hearts of his parents.He also explained what Du Lian did that day, saying it was all a misunderstanding.

Lu Minghai was noncommittal, and if Lu Mingchuan said more, he just kept silent.Let's not mention the parents. As for Du Lian, Lu Minghai naturally believed in his own son and daughter, not his elder brother who had heard one-sided words.

At the same time, Lu Minghai felt a little alienated from his elder brother Lu Mingchuan. Du Lian was Hu's nephew, and the two had a constant relationship, with Hu being in the middle. If the same thing happened in the future, the elder brother would just believe it. On his wife's side.

So when people become relatives, many things will gradually change. It's not about other things, but that people always have a distinction between distance and nearness.Compared with brothers, it must be his own wife who is closer. After all, they eat in the same pot, sleep on the same kang, and have children together, and even live a lifetime.

Lu Minghai himself has this kind of thinking, so he naturally understands what his elder brother thinks.

Putting these things aside, Lu Jiaoyue's plan to build a courtyard wall at home was approved with both hands.There will definitely be many things going on with the Du family in the future, and it is naturally good to be able to completely separate from Shang Fang.

But she also knows that building adobe to build a courtyard wall is not a small project.After thinking about it, she went to Lu Minghai and told her thoughts.Lu Jiaoyue thought that instead of building a wall with earth, it is better to build it with bricks. Bricks can be bought ready-made, saving time and effort. The only disadvantage is that it costs money.

But after thinking about it, if Lu Minghai and Lu Guangyi both left what they were doing and just went to build the wall, it would definitely delay a lot of things.First of all, there is no need to sell Lu Minghai's tofu, and what to do with the work in the field.Seeing that autumn is coming soon, and the grain will be harvested soon, the crops at this time need to be taken care of carefully. During the day, Lu Minghai is busy selling tofu, and Lu Guangyi does all the work in the field.

Let’s not mention this for now, when it’s time to harvest the grain, the whole family will have to go to battle, and the matter of building the wall will be delayed.After harvesting the grain, there are still threshing, raising the field, and paying taxes. After the work is over, the weather is almost cold.And when the weather is cold, the adobe cannot be built. That is to say, if the wall is built with adobe, the courtyard wall cannot be built at all this year.

Lu Minghai also decided to build the courtyard wall in a moment of anger, and he didn't expect so much at all.At this time, after hearing what my daughter said, I realized the difficulty.

But if he used bricks to build the wall, he would not be willing to bear it. The family did not have much money, and immediately after harvesting the grain, he had to arrange a wedding for the eldest brother, and the money in the family was not enough.

Lu Jiaoyue knew her father's concern, and said that she would pay for the construction of the courtyard wall.

At the beginning, the embroidery was sold for 24 taels of silver. She planned to give all the silver to her mother, but her mother didn't want it.The Mei family only took ten taels of silver, saying it was for Lu Guangyi as a dowry money, and the family had the rest of the money for the wedding.As for the remaining money, she asked Lu Jiaoyue to keep it, saying that it would be saved as her dowry.

Lu Jiaoyue was unwilling, she usually didn't spend money, the reason why she spent so much time making embroidery and selling it for money was also for the sake of her family.But Mei was very firm, and both Lu Minghai and Lu Guangyi thought it was right to do so.In the thinking of these two men, it is a man's business to support the family. How can they let their daughter (sister) come, so what should they do.

Especially Lu Guangyi, he already felt ashamed of his sister, and he was determined not to let her go.In order not to burden her eldest brother, Lu Jiaoyue collected the rest of the money.

She was planning to find an opportunity to mention sending Wulang and his second brother to study, but the timing was not coincidental, and generally schools accept students at the beginning of the year, so temporarily taking out the money for use will not delay anything.By next year, she can almost sell a sum of money selling embroidery, presumably it will be more than enough to send her two younger brothers to study by then.

In fact, Lu Jiaoyue thought more. She also wanted to help her family build a few tile-roofed houses, but it was imminent to build the courtyard wall, so she had to put it aside for now, and wait until next year to talk about building the house.

(End of this chapter)