farmer's little girl

Chapter 90 Newlywed Yaner
In the room, Zhou Jin has not spoken.

Lu Jiaoyue stood by the door and watched Mrs. Zhuang go outside, and then she said to Zhou Jin: "Mother, she is gone."

Zhou Jin was stunned for a moment, then cheered up and said: "Don't worry about her, she is such an old person, she knows what she is doing."

Lu Jiaoyue hesitated for a moment, "You said mother has gone back, will that man do anything to her?" Her subtext was that she was afraid that Mrs. Zhuang would be beaten. After all, there were never many men who beat their wives in the countryside. It's the mother-in-law, she didn't say it bluntly.

Lu Jiaoyue had never dealt with the Han family, but when she saw just now, she knew that there was probably no good person in that family.

Seeing her tangled appearance, Zhou Jin laughed a little: "Don't worry, that man won't beat my mother."

Lu Jiaoyue looked at him suspiciously, and Zhou Jin finally said something.

In fact, seriously, Han Laoshuan is very kind to the Zhuang family, including when he married the Zhuang family, if he hadn't liked it to a certain extent, he would not have done that, resisting the pressure of the whole village and even the rumors outside Rumor has it that the Zhuang family was married back.

But this kind of goodness is exclusive. It is only for Zhuang, and other people are not in his consideration.Because of this kind of thinking, he treats Zhou Jin and his brother only superficially. In fact, if there is no conflict between Zhou Jin and Han Dashan, maybe this superficial peace can be maintained forever, but it is a pity that things backfire.

Between the cheap son and his own son, Han Laoshuan would naturally choose to protect his son.

However, although the Zhuang family humbled themselves and endured the humiliation, in the end, their hearts were still toward their children.Although this kind of performance was not obvious, there were still traces to follow, which made Han Laoshuan feel more and more unbalanced. He always felt that Zhuang Shi was still thinking about the man in front of him, and his mind gradually became distorted.Of course, this person is not a good person, but now he is even worse.

In fact, think about it seriously, if he wasn't afraid of Zhuang's leaving, why would he always talk about Han Xiaohai.Just now he said to ask Zhou Jin to take some money to honor him, but in fact he just disgusted Zhou Jin and others, and threatened Zhuang by the way.If he wanted money earlier, Zhou Jin would not have been working in the county for a day or two. On weekdays, horse-drawn carriages would come and go, and no one would know that he had money in his hand, but Han Laoshuan never mentioned it .

Zhou Jin knew all these things in his heart, but he knew in his heart that whether he could accept his feelings or not was a different matter.

After listening, Lu Jiaoyue fell into shock.

What is this?I love you, but at the same time torture you?After thinking about it, she couldn't understand this kind of thinking, and her mother-in-law was caught in the middle of it. Lu Jiaoyue always felt that such wild thinking was disrespectful to others, so she didn't bother with it.

"Don't want to?" Zhou Jin looked at her and said.

Lu Jiaoyue shook her head.

"Don't take these things to heart. If the Han family doesn't come to me, I won't do anything to them. If they don't know people, we don't have to be afraid of them. As for my mother—" Zhou Jin paused, "She has I don't want to interfere with her thoughts."

This time Lu Jiaoyue understood, that is to say, if the Han family had nothing to do with right and wrong, they would live in peace;As for the mother-in-law, if she wants to stay in the Han family, then let her go.

At this time, Zhou Lamei and Li Shuicheng walked in.

Zhou Lamei wasn't crying anymore. When Zhou Jin made a move just now, Mrs. Liu carried Xiao Baozhu away, and she also hugged her now. Xiao Baozhu ran beside her mother, her little face tensed, It also seems to know what unpleasant things happened at home.

After lunch, Li Shuicheng's family left.

An order has been issued from Fucheng. If it wasn't for Zhou Jin's marriage, Li Shuicheng's family would have gone to Fucheng by now.There is a deadline for taking up the post on the transfer order, especially after going to Fucheng, there is still a need to settle down, so there is no delay.

Zhou Jin and Lu Jiaoyue sent them to the door, Li Shuicheng said to Zhou Jin: "Xu Fan is taking my place now, he is brought out by me, if there is anything in the future, you can find him, I will fight with him Say hello."

"Thank you brother-in-law, if I have free time, I will take Yue'er to Fucheng to visit you, eldest sister and little Baozhu."

Over there, Zhou Lamei was pulling Lu Jiaoyue to talk, and what he said was nothing more than telling the young couple to live a good life.Of course, there was also Zhuang's. Zhou Lamei told Lu Jiaoyue not to blame Zhuang's. She also had her own reasons.

Lu Jiaoyue nodded repeatedly. Although she didn't have many contacts, she could feel the sincerity of her elder sister.Thinking of their family going to such a far away place, it might be difficult to meet in the future, Lu Jiaoyue's heart was also full of sentimentality.

Seeing off after thousands of miles, there will be a farewell. Looking at the carriage disappearing in the distance, Zhou Jin said to Lu Jiaoyue: "Let's go to Fucheng to visit Eldest Sister when we have time."

Lu Jiaoyue nodded.

Mrs. Zhuang walked into the gate of Han's house, and the house was silent.

She paused, then walked to the upper room.

It was only after entering the room that there were people in the room. The whole family had gathered in the upper room. Han Laoshuan was lying on the kang with a pale face, looking weak.

"You still dare to come back!" Han Dashan's eyes were tearing, and he stared at Zhuang's with hatred: "You are not at your good son's house, what are you doing when you come back to our house!"

The others also looked hostile. They had already heard why Han Laoshuan was injured.

"Dashan, shut up, you want your father and me to die, don't you?" On the kang, Han Laoshuan struggled to drink, and then began to cough.

Seeing this, Han Dashu hurriedly said: "It's this time, why are you still talking about these things, brother, don't hurry up and ask for a doctor, don't let our father get hurt."

After a group of people turned their backs on their backs, the doctor invited them over.

The doctor helped Han Laoshuan take a look, felt his pulse again, and said: "It's nothing serious, just prescribe two medicines and take them at home for a while."

Han Dashan didn't believe it: "It's really nothing, so why did my father cough like this?!"

The doctor pondered for a moment, "Probably something happened."

"How is it possible? My father was obviously lying on the ground and couldn't get up!" Han Dashan still didn't believe it.

The doctor asked back: "You still don't believe what I said, do you want your father to be seriously injured?"

This doctor is also surnamed Han, he is from the Han family village, and his medical skills are very good. If anyone in the village has ailments, he will see them, and he has a lot of prestige in the village.

Hearing this, Han Dashan hastily smiled to cover up, "Why, I'm just worried about my father."

Naturally, he would not reveal his dark thoughts. If his father was injured, he would have a reason to report the matter to his uncle, and then he would call all the people in the village to find the bastard.

Even so, Han Dashan still didn't give up on this kind of thinking. After seeing the doctor was sent away, his face was clouded: "We can't take it for nothing. I'll go to my cousin."

He was about to turn around and go out, but was stopped by Mrs. Zhuang, "Dashan, he didn't mean to come in. He was also annoyed that his daughter-in-law was burned by his mother, so he..."

Han Dashan sneered: "At this time, you still speak for that bastard?"

Zhuang's face was at a loss, but she didn't know what to say, she only knew that she couldn't let her stepson go to Li Zheng.The people in Zhuangzi have always been in groups and domineering. If they really call a group of people to Daxi Village, how will her son gain a foothold there in the future.

"Dashan, for your mother's sake..."

"You are not my mother, you are the mother of that bastard..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by something thrown by Han Laoshuan, "Why did you talk to your mother? This is not a glorious thing, and it must be known to everyone? Please calm down, Go back to the house, don't go looking for your cousin, your father is not dead yet, so I don't need you to be my family!"

Han Dashan stamped his feet, looked at Mrs. Zhuang bitterly, and then turned his head and left.

This vixen, since she came in, his father's thoughts are no longer on the two brothers.And that bastard is capable now, and married such a beautiful girl, he won't let them go...

Seeing that things have become like this, naturally no one dared to come out to make trouble, and they all found excuses to slip away.The room became quiet, Han Laoshuan on the kang cast a glance at Mrs. Zhuang, who was sitting there with her head bowed silently, "The stepson hits the stepfather, although he doesn't have my surname anymore, but no one knows that he is my stepson. Such a good son, a good son!"

"If you don't want this to make a big deal, then stay at home and don't go anywhere, otherwise..."

He sneered twice, and Mrs. Zhuang at the corner of the kang still sat there with her head bowed, silent.

After Li Shuicheng's family left, there were naturally only Zhou Jin and Lu Jiaoyue left in the family.

The two first went back to the room for a lunch break, and after sleeping for almost half an hour, they woke up.After waking up and having nothing to do, Lu Jiaoyue went to tidy up the east chamber.

There is no one living in the east wing now, but the used bedding and things still need to be cleaned up, so they can't be left there to shed ashes.Things like bedding should be kept carefully, and they should be put away when they are not in use. When the sun is good, they should be taken out to dry in the sun, so that they can sleep comfortably when they are in use.

Zhou Jin refused to let her go, saying that there is no bride who would work on the first day of marriage.There is indeed such a rule in the countryside that the bride does not have to work for the first month after entering the house, but generally no one pays attention to this. Farmers usually have a lot of work, and no matter how many people do it, naturally they don't pay attention to this.

Lu Jiaoyue smiled and said, "Then what shall we do for dinner tonight?"

This sentence made Zhou Jin a little confused. He is a big man who naturally doesn't know how to cook. He usually buys food outside in the county.Zhou Jin, who doesn't know how to cook, thought of a good way, "If not, let's go buy it and eat it?" When Lu Jiaoyue looked directly at him, he immediately changed his words: "If not, let's go to the town to eat. "

Lu Jiaoyue's eyes became more and more disapproving, Zhou Jin finally couldn't hold on anymore, wiped his face in frustration, and said, "That's right, it's not convenient to live in the country, if you buy it from outside, you should be cold."

"Okay, there are only two of us in our family, so there's no need to talk about those rules. I'll clean up the east room first, and I'll cook in the evening." Lu Jiaoyue, the new wife who just took office, said with a final decision. .

Afterwards, she went to the East Wing, first removed the quilt, put the quilt aside, and prepared to wash it tomorrow.Put the quilt into the cabinet, and took a rag to wipe it around, and then it was done.During this period, Zhou Jin has been following her, and seeing her rushing in and out, he was probably a little embarrassed. Finally, when Lu Jiaoyue was going to carry the changed quilt to the room and put it first, he Grab that pile of things.

"Where do you say to put it, I will put it."

Lu Jiaoyue didn't stop him, but told him the location, then turned around and locked the door of the east chamber.There are only her and Zhou Jin in the family. If there are no guests in the future, I am afraid that they will not be able to use it for a while.

It was probably because Lu Minghai was never like other men in the village, he was used to being a hands-off shopkeeper. Except for the work in the field, he did not do any chores at home.When he has free time, Lu Minghai will also help Mrs. Mei with some housework, so the boys from Erfang's family will more or less do some trivial work.Like Lu Guangyi and Lu Guangzhi, they often wash their own clothes, and they also want to share the load with their mother and younger sister.

Having lived in this kind of atmosphere for a long time, Lu Jiaoyue didn't think there was anything wrong with men doing housework.For things like housework, if you don't do it, I will do it.In particular, everything comes and goes, which is conducive to cultivating mutual affection and understanding.Due to some reasons in her previous life, she didn't want Zhou Jin to be the same as Du Lian in her previous life.After doing a new job, Lu Jiaoyue no longer has the perception that housework should be done by women by nature.

Zhou Jin was holding a lot of things, he was in a hurry, but fortunately he was big and had big hands, so he would be able to hold those things and take them to the west room of the upper room and put them away first.

After putting the things away, he followed to the kitchen.After Lu Jiaoyue came out of the East Wing, she came to the kitchen. She was new here, so she had to figure out some things.

The kitchen was very messy. Although Mrs. Liu cooked breakfast and lunch, Li Shuicheng's family left after lunch, so there was no time to tidy up.

Lu Jiaoyue rolled up her sleeves, planning to wash the dishes first.

Looking at this situation, Zhou Jin was quite at a loss.

Seeing this, Lu Jiaoyue said: "You can fetch some water for me."

Suddenly, as if he had received some order, he picked up the bucket and went to the well.

There is work to do in hand, and time always flies by very fast. After everything is cleaned up, it is already dark.In winter, it gets dark early, and usually when it is getting dark, the villagers start cooking.After eating, soak your feet, or go to the kang to keep warm.

There are a lot of leftovers in the kitchen, which are left over from the running water table yesterday.

Most of them are unused, not leftovers from other people’s food. When people in the countryside invite people to eat rice noodles, even if there are endless leftovers on the table, they are pretended to be taken away by the villagers who come to eat rice noodles, and they take them home. The child ate.

Lu Jiaoyue picked up two bowls of steamed vegetables and put them on the stove to heat them up. She also chose a handful of cowpeas and prepared to fry them later. There wasn't much food for two people, and three dishes and one soup were enough.In the end, she made an egg drop soup in the frying pan, and it was considered finished.As for the staple food, just warm up a few unfinished steamed buns from the running water table yesterday.

"You're always standing, aren't you tired?" Only then did she turn her head and talk to Zhou Jin.

Just now Zhou Jin also wanted to help Lu Jiaoyue, but unfortunately he was not good at choosing dishes or lighting a fire, so Lu Jiaoyue could only push him away and did everything by herself.With no work to do, Zhou Jin didn't know what to do, so he could only stand aside and act as a door god.

The door god Zhou Jin sniffled, made a salivating look, and said, "Daughter-in-law, your craftsmanship is really good."

Lu Jiaoyue was a little funny, steamed vegetables are ready-made, and they only need to be eaten hot, so she also fried a dish, which is called handicraft.Of course, Zhou Jin's praise was also very useful to her, so she cast a glance at him and said, "You bring the vegetables over first, and I'll pick out the steamed buns."

How long has it been since Zhou Jin has a round belly after eating a meal?
In his memory, he vaguely remembered that when his father was still there, the family of four would sit and eat by candlelight, warm and happy.It's a pity that since the drought, after father left, they came to Han's village, mother remarried and went to Han's family, this situation has never happened again.

Thinking of this, Zhou Jin suddenly became sad, but looking at his beautiful wife who was busy clearing the table, he suddenly felt that this kind of beauty must be the best gift from heaven.

Zhou Jin stood up, "Just now you thought I didn't cook well, so let me wash the bowl. It's an easy job, and I'll do it after looking at it."

Lu Jiaoyue gave him a teasing look, but nodded without saying anything.

Afterwards, they went to the kitchen. Zhou Jin filled a basin of water and stood there to wash the dishes. Lu Jiaoyue was on the side as a supervisor.After holding the rag and the bowl in his hands, Zhou Jin realized that the job was not as simple as he imagined.

With a snap, a bowl fell to the ground and shattered.

"Well, my hands are slippery." Zhou Jin said very confidently, his hands were prone to slipping after being wet.

Lu Jiaoyue nodded.

There was another slap, and a spoon was broken.

Lu Jiaoyue went to see Zhou Jin to see what he planned to say.

"It's still slippery."

Lu Jiaoyue nodded again.

Until the third crisp sound sounded, Zhou Jin could no longer use the excuse of slippery hands, and could only say: "The light is too dim."

Lu Jiaoyue supported her forehead, and quickly stepped forward to push him away.

The broken ones are not the rough porcelain bowls that are commonly used in the countryside. Zhou Jin is particular about it. When he bought the bowls and chopsticks for his family, he picked good ones, and they were all made of fine porcelain.It cost nearly two taels of silver for a set, and let him slip a few times like this, and there will be no bowl for dinner tomorrow.

After everything was tidied up, the two went back to the house to wash and go to the kang.

Zhou Jin went to the kang first, while Lu Jiaoyue combed her hair while sitting in front of the dressing table.

She took the comb and combed her black hair like a cloud, hoping that the time would pass faster, and then wondered why he didn't sleep, if only he fell asleep.

"Come up soon, aren't you cold?" Zhou Jin said suddenly.

Lu Jiaoyue was taken aback and almost threw the comb in her hand. She hurriedly stood up, put the comb on the dressing table, and then turned to Zhou Jin and said, "Go to sleep first, I will sleep now." No, I want to do some sewing."

As she said that, she looked around for a dustpan for needlework.After searching around, it suddenly occurred to her that she put the sewing dustpan in the kang cabinet.

If she wanted to get something from the kang cabinet, she would inevitably have to go to the kang cabinet. She glanced at Zhou Jin cautiously, deliberately avoiding him, and went to get things from the kang cabinet.Unexpectedly, before he stretched out his hand, the person grabbed her, Zhou Jin pulled her into his arms, and the two of them rolled into the quilt.

"Okay, what time is it, let's rest early."

Lu Jiaoyue was terribly frightened, and immediately said what was in her heart, "I still hurt there!" After saying that, she realized what she had said, blushing as if she was about to bleed, and hurriedly dived into it. into the quilt.

Zhou Jin paused and laughed, "Where did you go?" He stretched out his hand to fish her out, but Lu Jiaoyue insisted on refusing to let her go, so he had no choice but to get under the covers too.

In the dim quilt, Zhou Jin and Lu Jiaoyue leaned their heads against each other, and they breathed entangled with each other, "I don't want to do anything today, why are you so worried."

Lu Jiaoyue tightly closed her eyes, her face was almost burning, she murmured for a while, but she still didn't say anything.

"Silly girl! You are very tired today, go to sleep." Zhou Jin said softly, and pulled her into his arms.

Lu Jiaoyue's body was still a little stiff at first, but gradually softened, and she let herself be nestled in his arms.

It was probably because the bed was very warm, Lu Jiaoyue was so smoky, her breath was full of his smell, but after a while, she fell asleep.

The next day, Lu Jiaoyue woke up in Zhou Jin's arms.

Woke up and opened his eyes to look out the window, the genius is numb.

Because the kang has not been heated yet, it is a bit cold in the room, but it is very warm under the quilt.

"The temperature has dropped again. It's cold outside. Just sleep for a while. Anyway, it's just the two of us, so we don't need to wake up so early." Zhou Jin closed his eyes and said.

Lu Jiaoyue continued to sleep obediently, at first she thought she couldn't fall asleep, but she fell asleep again.When she woke up again, it was already bright outside.

Zhou Jin was not there, she seemed to have woken up, Lu Jiaoyue felt a sense of shame, and hurriedly got up from the bed.She put on her clothes, pulled her hair casually, and went out of the upper room, just in time to see Zhou Jin who was busy feeding the horses at the stable.

It seemed to be surprisingly cold today, Lu Jiaoyue was wearing an autumn shirt, but she was shocked by the cold wind as soon as she came out.

Over there, Zhou Jin glanced at her and said, "Go and change clothes before coming out."

Lu Jiaoyue turned around and went back to the room to change clothes.She brought a lot of clothes as a dowry, some clothes she wore when she was a girl, and some new ones.Knowing that it would be cold when she got married, Lu Jiaoyue deliberately made several winter clothes.

She changed into a bright red jacket embroidered with orchid grass, and changed the skirt underneath into a thicker one, then rummaged through the closet for a thin jacket she had made for Zhou Jin, and went out again.

"Put it on too, don't think you are strong enough to mess around." She handed the thin jacket over and said to Zhou Jin.

Don't look at what Zhou Jin said about Lu Jiaoyue's words, the others were also dressed very lightly, just like Lu Jiaoyue, he didn't expect it to be so cold today.He didn't care whether it was a man. He planned to go back to the house to add clothes after feeding the horse.

Zhou Jin patted the broken grass foam on his hands, took the thin jacket and put it on his body.

"I'm going to cook, what do you want for breakfast?"

"Whatever you want, you can eat whatever you want."

Men are careless, every time her mother asks her father what he wants to eat, her father always answers the same way, including her eldest brother and second brother.It seems that as long as women pay more attention to eating, they don't care at all.But when they eat it, it will show up, whether it is delicious or not, whether they like it or not, can be seen from their faces.

Lu Jiaoyue wanted to cook a delicious meal for Han Jin, so she racked her brains to make breakfast.

She was going to make corn grits, and bake some pancakes for dry food. Her mother's pancakes were delicious, so she followed suit.

Lu Jiaoyue went to knead the noodles first, put it aside to wake up, and went to cook the porridge.Added water to the pot, and when the water boiled, sprinkle corn grits into it, stirring while sprinkling, so as not to stick to the pot.

In fact, the so-called corn grits, that is, threshed corn, dried and crushed, is a staple food that is used to eating in the northern countryside.It can be used for dry rice, porridge, pancakes, steamed corn bread and so on.If it is used to cook porridge, it can be cooked with rice or noodles. The Erfang family likes to grind the corn cobs into pieces, and mix some white noodles in it. It is fragrant and delicious when used to cook porridge.

This bag of corn grits was brought over by Lu Jiaoyue as a dowry, knowing that Zhou Jin was a big man at home, so he probably wouldn't cook on fire, fearing that her daughter would have nothing to eat in the first two days after her marriage, so Mei specially prepared it for her.

After the corn grits are put into the pot, just keep it from sticking to the pot, you can let it boil over a low fire, the longer it boils, the more fragrant it will be.Lu Jiaoyue turned her head and went to cook again. The meat and vegetables were naturally leftovers from the day they got married. As for the vegetables, there were no vegetables because the Zhou family didn't have a vegetable plot for the time being. There is no food to eat.

"Tomorrow, I will go back home. When I come back, I will ask my father to bring us some white rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes and so on. My natal family has a lot of these, and half of the cellar is installed in the cellar. It is also a coincidence that there is no vegetable field at home, only Wait until next spring to open the vegetable field." During the meal, Lu Jiaoyue said.

"Don't worry about this. I'll go to the county the day after tomorrow and buy more vegetables to keep at home. I can get through this winter no matter what. When I'm free, I'll open up the vegetable field behind. "

Lu Jiaoyue didn't refuse, even if she didn't need to sell vegetables, she still had to buy meat and the like.There are neither chickens nor pigs in the family, so you have to buy an egg to eat.Thinking of this, Lu Jiaoyue planned to raise a brood of chickens at home when spring next year began.

"It's better to get another chicken coop. We'll use it to raise chickens. As for raising pigs, we don't have much leftovers. It's not like my natal family makes tofu, and there are bean dregs to mix with pigs. Pig. By the way, I have always wanted to plant a grape vine at home, but I have never planted one because there is no space at home. Then we will set up a grape trellis in the backyard, and in summer, there will be grapes to eat... ..." Lu Jiaoyue became more and more excited as she spoke, her eyes were shining brightly.

Zhou Jin listened with a smile on the corner of his mouth, nodding frequently.

(End of this chapter)