peasant girl wedding

Chapter 44 Buying Land

The only silence in the room was the sound of breathing. Mr. Tong turned over and looked at his wife's silver hair.

The old lady twitched her refusal.

With Mr. Tong's obvious intentions, if she intervenes, she might offend him and change her strategy.

The old lady didn't speak, and Mr. Tong thought that she had acquiesced, and felt a little more happy in his heart.

Three days passed according to the old lady's calculations. At noon that day, Fang Cuiwei was washing clothes with Luo Shi in the yard of the main house. He heard uneven footsteps outside. Looking back, it was Tong Zhiming and others. Back with tools.

Fang Cuiwei looked at Tong Zhixin, who had been defrauded a lot, with surprise in his eyes.

Tong Zhixin who entered the door was naturally looking at Fang Cuiwei. During the days away from home, what he missed most was his wife and children.Grinning slightly at Fang Cui, Tong Zhixin followed Tong Zhiming, Tong Zhide and Tong Zhaoyin into the main house.

"came back."

When his son and grandson came back, Mr. Tong was very happy, with a smile on his face, and even Mr. Tong smiled at Tong Zhixin, who had no good face for his nonsense a while ago.

"What are you doing standing there stupidly, go and pour tea."

Hearing the old lady's sudden scolding, the smiles on the faces of several people were stunned, and they followed the voice, but it was the back of Mrs. Lin who was being scolded by the old lady and went to the kitchen.

It was his own daughter-in-law who was being scolded, and Tong Zhiming's face was a bit ugly.However, he also knew that his mother was still unhappy about exposing the family scandal to Mrs. Lin, so he could only roll back the tongue that was about to intercede with Mrs. Lin.Seeing the old lady staring at him, Tong Zhiming immediately forced a smile on his face.

"Father, mother, this is the money we earned by helping other people plant the land this time." Tong Zhiming took out the blue cloth bag containing the silver and handed it to Mr. Tong.

Mr. Tong took it, handed it to the old lady naturally, and said to Tong Zhiming and the others with a smile: "You guys have been away for so many days, it's been hard work, and I'll ask your mother to buy some fish to make up for it later."

Lin, who was pouring water in the kitchen, was very angry.

How many days have passed, and she has swallowed her anger so much, the old lady's anger should have subsided, right?But who knows, she tortured herself more and more.

Lin felt aggrieved.

I think she has been married to the Tong family for so many years, but it is the first time she has been so troubled, and all this is thanks to Fang Cuiwei, the fourth wife. If it wasn't for her, she would not have done such a thing, called the old lady Abandoning himself, he throws all the dirty work at home on himself.

Lin has forgotten that everything was caused by her own greed, instead she put the misfortune on Fang Cuiwei, and hated the fourth family members more and more in her heart.

When Tong Zhiming came out of the main house, Fang Cuiwei talked to the old lady and followed him.Seeing this, Luo Shi also told the old lady that he went back to the courtyard of the second room with his husband and son.The sons came back after earning money, and the old lady was naturally happy to agree to this little request from their daughter-in-law, not to mention...

"You, quickly wash the clothes in the yard."

Just as Lin put down the tea bowl, she heard the old lady say so.She raised her eyes in surprise, and said to the old lady: "Mother, shouldn't the second sister-in-law and the fourth sister-in-law wash the clothes today?"

"If you tell you to go, you will go. Where is there so much nonsense?" Mrs. Lin retorted, and the old lady's anger rose slowly. She glared at her and continued: "If you don't want to, then go home."

The latter sentence is also the one that the old lady said the most these days. As long as Mrs. Lin shows unwillingness, the old lady will say so.At first, Mr. Tong still talked about her, but later, he saw that the old lady was just talking about her to scare Mrs. Lin, so he let her go.

"Yes, daughter-in-law, just wash the clothes." Lin lowered her head, bit her lower lip unwillingly, and walked towards the half-washed laundry tub in the yard.

Tong Zhiming and Fang Cuiwei went back to the courtyard of the fourth room. He found that the children were not there, so he asked, "Where are Duo'er, Zhi'er, and Zhu'er?"

Fang Cuiwei said while fetching water: "They went to hunt pigweed. You know that mother is the first few pigs in Baobao's house. They insist on fresh tender grass. Duo'er and the others usually hunt pigweed. It was almost packed, so I went to a farther place to look for it, and I went out early, and I am afraid that I will not come back until night."

Tong Zhixin frowned, "What if they are hungry?"

Fang Cui turned her head and smiled, "You don't have to worry about that. When they went out in the morning, I made some pancakes for Duo'er to take with them. They won't be hungry."

Tong Zhixin also smiled.

Fang Cuiwei scooped two ladles of cold water into the basin, and put a clean towel in it, soaked in water, soaked, picked it up, wrung it dry, and handed it to Tong Zhixin.

Tong Zhixin enjoyed his wife's considerate care, and took the towel with a smile, "Is there nothing going on at home these days when I'm away?"

When he asked, Fang Cuiwei immediately talked about what Fang Dalin had told him, "A few days ago, her uncle Duo'er came to our house and said that she wanted you to go to him as soon as you came back, and give us the matter of buying the land. done."

"Okay," Tong Zhixin wiped his face clean and nodded.

Fang Cuiwei quickly cooked the meal, Tong Zhixin went out after eating, and walked to Fang's house.

Fang's family was in a neighboring village, about [-] miles away from Tong's family. Tong Zhixin had left for about two hours before arriving.

"Brother-in-law is here, come in quickly," said Fang Dalin's daughter-in-law, Yao Shi, who was sitting at the door with shoe soles on. Seeing Tong Zhixin approaching, she warmly welcomed him into the room.

Tong Zhixin smiled a little embarrassedly, and as soon as he entered the room, he quickly found a stool and sat down.He couldn't bear the enthusiasm of this sister-in-law every time he came.

Sure enough, as soon as Tong Zhixin sat down, melons, fruits, snacks, and tea were brought out.

"Sister-in-law, don't bother..." Tong Zhixin got up and repeatedly declined.

Yao Shi ignored him, and directly arranged the things on the table, moved a stool and sat down opposite, and said, "Just you? My sister and how many children didn't come?"

Tong Zhixin nodded, his face was still a little red, and he said, "Sister-in-law, I came here today to find elder brother, is he there?"

Yao Shi shook his head, "Just now he went out with someone."

Tong Zhixin was a little disappointed, and after hearing Yao's saying that he would be back soon, he waited inside the room.

"Uncle..." A crisp female voice came from inside, and a sweet-looking girl opened the beaded curtain and came out. She was wearing a light purple floral dress, her hair was tied into two buns, and tied with colorful silk threads hang down.

"Like a girl," Tong Zhixin smiled at the girl. This is Fang Dalin and Yao's only daughter. Fang Ruyan is ten years old, the same age as Tong Zhi'er.

Fang Ruyan looked around Tong Zhixin, but she didn't find the person she wanted to meet, feeling a little depressed, but she still walked to Tong Zhixin and sat next to him.

"Miss you Duo'er and sister Zhi'er?"

Fang Ruyan raised her face, nodded, and said, "Uncle, why didn't Sister Duo'er and Sister Zhi'er come?" She was looking forward to her two sisters coming to see her, and she was the only girl in the family. Grandma was with her, but she was still a little lonely in her heart.

"Duo'er and Zhi'er have been busy helping the house with pigweed for a while, and when they are free, I will bring them over."

Hearing what Tong Zhixin said, Fang Ruyan grinned happily.

(End of this chapter)