Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 109

Qin Yang grinned, "Look at me." Then he rushed in and shouted, "Auntie, Auntie, did you bring me something good this time?"

Aunt Qin said: "Auntie brought you a bellows to make it easier for you to cook, and also brought snacks, didn't your mother give you something to eat?"

Qin Yang pouted unhappily: "Why doesn't aunt kiss me at all, and doesn't bring me something alone."

Aunt Qin was taken aback for a moment, she didn't expect this kid to be so cunning, and she was so picky, she said casually, "I'll bring you something nice when Auntie celebrates the Chinese New Year."

Qin Yang said happily: "Auntie, don't lie. Is the son of the family you told my elder sister to be a fool?"

Aunt Qin's eyelids twitched, and she couldn't bear it. Adults are concerned about face when they speak, and they don't speak directly, so even if they have doubts, they will say whether there is something wrong with that family, and they will not directly say that they are stupid or sick.This kid actually said it directly, which made Aunt Qin startled, a little embarrassed, and immediately turned her face down, "What do you know, you kid, you are smart, who can read and write, how can you be a fool."

She thought she had scolded Qin Yang, but Qin Yang said loudly again: "That must be a sick child."

Aunt Qin was furious, with a sullen face, "Brother, you have a problem educating children."

Qin Dafu hurriedly said: "Children are ignorant, Yang Yang, don't talk nonsense." He smiled and said to Aunt Qin: "Eldest sister, then you can tell me if there is something wrong with that person, you can't delay my daughter."

Aunt Qin scratched her neck and said, "Brother, are you suspicious of Eldest Sister by saying that? Isn't Xiuqin my niece? Can I think of harming her?"

Seeing that she was in a hurry, Mrs. Liu stepped forward to smooth things over and said, "Sister, don't be angry, it's just asking. After all, it's good to know the truth. Before getting married, it's okay to talk about everything, otherwise we will never If there is a problem, it will be a matter of life."

Aunt Qin said unhappily: "He's doing well, he's not a fool, he's not sick, he's not lame, he's not ugly, he has a good temper."

Qin Dafu breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "I said that his aunt must be thinking about our Daye and Xiuqin, so you don't have to worry about getting married. Sister, we don't have the money to pay the bride price and dowry, so I really don't mind it ? Such a good family, how can they take a fancy to us?"

Aunt Qin sneered and said: "You think you are sweet and sweet, why do people think that you are not as good as my mother-in-law? They are willing to marry us because of her relationship." She felt that her tone was a bit too He was blunt, so he softened his tone, and said: "I want to find someone who knows the basics again. I don't need to look for the daughter's son's marriage separately, so as not to treat my daughter badly, and then find a worry-free daughter-in-law. If I look for it from one family, it would be worse Reassuring."

Qin Dafu hurriedly said: "Sister, don't be angry, if our hearts for children are really good, then we are naturally high. Even you know our family's situation and other people's conditions, we are obviously high. "

Seeing his change of heart, Aunt Qin smiled and said, "Even if their family is good, how good can it be? It can't compare with our family in the past. Didn't our family have hundreds of acres of land in the past? It's not worse than theirs."

As she spoke, she began to tell Mrs. Liu how good her family was when she was a child, how she enjoyed happiness when she was a child, and how the girls suffer now.Xiuyao listened below but didn't take it seriously. Although she just walked back and forth between her own house and her grandmother's house, she also knew that there were hundreds of acres of land at home, and she was only a small rich peasant here, not even a real landlord. Can't earn it.

If you rely solely on farming for food, your family will have to live frugally with two hundred acres of land. Those so-called extravagances are also done by rich and noble families. In the past, the family didn't have hundreds of acres of land at all, and Xiuyao reckoned that the one with the most was three hundred acres, which was nothing compared to the Zhou family now.

Auntie said that she is like a landlord's lady, which is too exaggerated.

Mrs. Liu listened to her talk for a long time, and said: "If you really want to be in-laws, then let's meet. We are not a big family, and we don't need three matchmakers and six hires. Matchmakers are needed. The most important thing is that the two families meet each other. Face to face, look at each other, otherwise it’s not called a blind date.”

Aunt Qin smiled and said: "After all, it is convenient for a matchmaker to go back and forth. If we meet each other, at least we have to take the child with us. It is not convenient to go back and forth. Isn't this a burden for the family? My mother-in-law is optimistic, it is definitely good, back then Your brother-in-law and I are the ones my mother-in-law took a fancy to. She said yes, so what are you worried about. "

Qin Dafu saw that she had a good nose and eyes, but wanted to give it a try, but Liu Shi insisted.

Aunt Qin was a little displeased, "That's fine, I'll go back and talk to my mother-in-law and let her arrange it." She drank another glass of wine, "That's it, I'm tired and go to rest, I'll let someone Send me a letter." As he spoke, he was about to get off the kang.

Mrs. Liu hurriedly helped her, Aunt Qin waved her hand and said, "Don't help, the wine you bought doesn't look like that kind of baijiu at first glance, it doesn't matter at all. My mother-in-law and I go out to have a big banquet, and I can handle that kind of baijiu Have a drink." He touched his shoes and put them on, then he got off the ground and said, "That's it." After speaking, he went out, Liu Shi and Qin Dafu went to see it off.

After returning home, the courtyard door was closed, and the family sat on the kang to keep warm and talk.

Xiuyao and Xiurong Qin Yang were picking sweet potatoes and jujubes she had dried there, Xiuqin was doing needlework in the West Room because she was worried and shy, while Qin Xian was reading and writing, and wanted to borrow the book Liu Fei borrowed. The book is familiar.

Xiu Rong bit the hard sweet potato date and said curiously: "This is not easy to bite at all, it doesn't look like a date at all."

Xiuyao smiled and said, "Third Sister, this is also called Diguayou."

Qin Yang asked loudly, "Why?"

Xiuyao pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Look, we can't even bite, so we have to suck slowly, grind our teeth little by little, it's just sweet potatoes."

A few people laughed and thought it was true.

Xiuyao said again: "This can also be fried sweet potatoes and beans. It's good to eat with scorpion beans and sugar chess pieces on February [-] next year. No one else's house will keep it."

When Xiu Rong heard that it was delicious, she immediately asked, "Can I fry it now? Does it waste oil?"

Xiuyao shook her head, "You need fine sand, and then put it in a pot for dry frying."

Qin Yang immediately said: "I see, it's the same as our fried scorpion beans."

Xiuyao patted his head, "Little Yang'er is really smart, right."

Xiurong immediately said to the parents who were talking about the matter: "Mom, anyway, there is not much work in winter now, why don't we fry some sweet potatoes and beans?"

Liu Shi asked how to do it, Xiurong asked Xiuyao to talk about it quickly.

Xiuyao said: "This is very simple, just put our dried sweet potatoes in the fine yarn and fry them until they are fluffy and crispy."

Xiurong was immediately excited, wishing she could go down and fry now.

Qin Dafu laughed and said, "Anyway, it's not too much trouble. Why don't you fry some for the children as snacks. If it's delicious, you can fry some during the Chinese New Year."

Liu also agreed.

Xiuyao said again: "However, we have to cut these pieces into strips and cubes, so that they are not too big. If I knew it was drying, I would have cut them into small pieces."

Xiurong volunteered, "It's okay, I'll cut it, isn't it sweet potatoes, I can still cut them." Although it is simple to say, it is not so easy to cut, after all, the sweet potatoes and dates are four or five catties in the sun, there is no The water at the top was very firm, and after a while her hands ached, which made Qin Xianxie.

Qin Xian said, "I'm still reading."

Xiu Rong insisted on cutting it, "Second brother, it's useless for you to read it all day long, it's just two books, you'll read them in a while, come and cut them quickly."

Qin Xian raised his brows when he heard her say so lightly, "You said lightly, you can try it after a while, the exam is just four books and five classics, how many people can be a scholar?"

Seeing his angry look, Xiurong said: "Second brother, what did you say when we first separated, you have to take care of your parents and younger siblings when the eldest brother is not at home, now that the eldest brother is not at home, we let you You don’t even want to help cut and dry sweet potatoes, hum!” He turned his head and left.

Qin Xian immediately dropped the book, "I've convinced you, I'll cut it."

The children cut sweet potatoes, and the Liu family and Qin Dafu discussed their children's marriage, some arrangements for the coming year, and the fifty acres of wasteland.Qin Dafu wondered if there was too much land, only more than [-] mu was counted as land, and the other [-] mu could grow a little, but they asked for [-] mu, and they would not be able to grow anything by then, which was a waste of seeds. Make people laugh.But Liu felt that there was nothing to laugh at. They were so poor and there was nothing to be afraid of. It was nothing more than saying that they were tossing about and wanting to be poor and poor landlords.

"Daye has to arrange a marriage, but we know what our current conditions are. We can't lie to others about how good our family is, and deceive their girls. In addition, I don't think we are in a hurry. It's not too late to find a daughter-in-law in two years. Back then our conditions were better than now, and it was easy to choose a daughter-in-law. Now we are in a hurry, but let others choose us."

Qin Dafu also agreed, "It's just that it's hard to talk about the eldest sister. Besides, Xiuqin is not young, she should get married when she is sixteen or seventeen."

Liu said: "It's not too old, and there are many married people now. His aunt is not too old, and our Xiuqin is not too old. I still say that, in two years, our conditions will be better than now. Well, since it can be better, it is easier to talk about kissing, and we can choose a better person. Now we want to talk about kissing, except for those who are the same as us, who are better than us on the surface, but in reality that person is not good enough for our children In that case, I firmly disagree. You have to kill yourself and don’t let go. It doesn’t matter if you are poor, you can’t be a bad person, you don’t want to eat, drink, prostitute or gamble, or you have a bad temper. Our Xiuqin is a soft-tempered man. If it's too explosive, she won't be able to bear it."

Qin Dafu said: "My saving is that the eldest sister has to speak slowly, you know who she is. She used to be strong at home, but after she got married, her mother-in-law was even stronger. Now she doesn't allow others to say no. "

Mrs. Liu snorted, "This is my daughter, why don't you allow me to say no, but she, if she is really good for the child, she should find out everything, she can't be so unclear, just hurry up He looks like he is going to be engaged. I will go back to my mother's house in a few days and ask his grandfather to pay attention to it."

Qin Dafu smiled and said: "That's a good thing, if you go to his grandpa's village, there will be someone to take care of you, I don't worry. Her uncles and grandpa's house must have suitable people."

Mrs. Liu shook her head, "We don't have to think about this. My father and the others said back then that we are good brothers and we should not be in-laws of our sons and daughters, so as not to hurt the friendship of brothers because our in-laws can't do it." This is the old Liu's family. The lessons learned have become family mottos and no one will want to break them.

The two families had a good relationship, so they wanted to get married, but the marriage failed, and the original relationship was destroyed. This kind of thing happened frequently, and the old Liu family had regulations that forbid each other to kiss each other.

Because Qin Dafu and his wife were unhappy, Aunt Qin couldn't hold on any longer, so she hurriedly left and went home to report to her mother-in-law the next day.

(End of this chapter)