Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 138

At night, Qin Dafu's family went home under the cold moon, and the north wind howled, but everyone didn't feel cold, because they were warm after drinking some wine.Although the moon on the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month is not so round, it is still very bright and dazzling, reflecting the snow on the bottom of the wall and tree, giving off a gloomy light.

Xiuyao, Third Sister, and Eldest Sister, the three of them were arm in arm, chatting and laughing in low voices as they walked.Because Xiuqin got her mother's suggestion, she would never let her change marriage, while Xiuyao and Xiurong, because they had hope for the future, were full of joy in their hearts.

Xiuyao smiled and said, "I'm so happy today, we made so much money in a month."

Xiurong pinched her and signaled her not to say anything, lest the second brother overhear, and then the nanny would know.If Mammy knew they were making so much money, she wouldn't come and rob them.

Qin Xian seemed to understand what Xiurong meant, and walked ahead angrily.

Liu Shi said: "Er Xian, go home and open the door first, don't go to your nanny's house at this late hour, everyone is resting."

Qin Xian said sullenly: "Understood."

After returning home, Xiurong boiled water, and everyone soaked their feet, Qin Xian said to Liu Shi, "Mother, can I discuss something with you."

Liu said, "All right."

Qin Xian said, "Mother, I want to study."

Liu Shi glanced at him, "Er Xian, reading is not so easy, you are not young anymore."

Qin Xian said: "Then Liu Fei is older than me."

Liu said: "Your grandfather didn't point out that he was selected as a scholar. It's just that there is someone who can read at home."

Qin Xian hurriedly said: "Then I can do it too. I can also read and write, and I can also go to the examination for scholars."

Liu said: "Er Xian, mother still thinks that Yang Yang is small. Anyway, if you don't work, you can learn to read. You are so big and you should marry a wife after two years of work. It's too late to study. Besides, our family You don’t have the conditions to study now, if Yang Yang can study with you at your grandma’s house, you’re not good enough. Your eldest brother is going to marry a wife, and your eldest sister also wants to talk about others.”

Qin Xian said dissatisfied: "Aren't we rich now?"

Mrs. Liu sighed, "I have some money, but don't you see that our family has nothing now. There is no land, no house, and no farm tools for livestock. The money is used to buy farm tools in the coming year, and to raise pigs and chickens." Buying livestock. Er Xian, you should also be considerate of the family, let’s forget about studying for now.”

Qin Xian bit his lip and wanted to say why Qin Yang could read why he couldn't, but he couldn't say it out, and felt infinitely wronged.Such a poor family, when will it be the head?Parents don't have the guts, if they have the guts, let him study, even if he spends a few years in poor school, but when he passes the scholar examination and wins the Juren, everything will be fine.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Mrs. Liu thought he agreed, and said, "Look at your elder brother, he didn't study. There are a few of our farmers who can study. It's good to be able to eat and wear warm. Our family is now You have enough food, clothing, warmth, and sleep. If you want to be able to read and write like Xiaofei and keep accounts, my mother agrees with you. After two years, our family's conditions will be better, and we don't have to worry about food and drink, so I will let you go."

Qin Xian was angry and didn't speak, went to Xijian to sleep with his clothes on, and Qin Dafu called him, but he refused to listen.

On the kang in the east, the girls of Xiuyao were so excited that they couldn't sleep. Xiuyao said in a low voice, "This year we sold blessing beans, and we earned two taels of money, and gloves made three taels of money. Next year we can buy piglets and raise pigs." There are so many dried sweet potatoes in my grandfather's house, it is enough to raise pigs.

In the coming year, we must grow more sweet potatoes and raise more pigs.

The next day, Qin Ye didn't come back. Liu Shi asked Qin Dafu to inquire about it, but no one else came back. Two days later, Zhou Qiang said that he would not come back from work until the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month. Terribly slow.

We have no choice but to wait.

When shopkeeper Feng returned to the county, he sent someone to bring the new year's goods to the owner, some snacks, candies, melon seeds, and a few pieces of printed cloth to make new clothes for the children, and some rags to make shoes. A catty of pork, twenty catties of pig bones, and a pair of pigs.

Seeing so many things, Liu Shi and Xiuyao thought they had sent them by mistake, so Liu Shi asked Xiuyao to go to Zhou Qiang's house and ask them to get half of it.In the end, Zhang Guifang said that they also had it, and whoever gave it to their family would get it, just take it. She also said that the Feng family had given it to their family in the past, and it would never be wrong.

Liu's heart was relieved, and she happily went back to clean up.

Qin Dafu said: "Why don't you give half of it to Dad and the others?"

Liu lowered her head to fiddle with things, without raising her head, said: "It doesn't need that much, let's cut half and freeze it, and eat it slowly during the Chinese New Year. Just give them two catties of meat and three catties of bones."

The Liu family would not be like this in the past, if Qin Dafu offered to give half, she would definitely give more than half, but since the Liu family tricked Zhang from Qin Dafu to find him to force the promise to change marriages, what is even worse is to force Seeing Qin Dafu send Xiuyao to Zhou's family as a girl to accompany Zhou Xiaopang, Liu Shi was going crazy, if he was not bound by the rules, he really wanted to break Zhang Shi's pot and give her meat to eat, She is so beautiful.

Qin Dafu said with a smile: "My daughter is ours, we have separated, if we don't agree, no one else can force her."

Liu sneered and said, "Mother forced you? Eldest sister forced you? If you don't agree, will you not recognize you?"

Qin Dafu said: "That's not allowed either. You can't let the child suffer."

Liu Shi looked at him and said seriously: "You should remember, don't forget about it when it comes to trouble."

Qin Dafu replied: "Don't worry, I will never forget, no matter how incompetent I am, even if I die of starvation, I will not sell my sons and daughters."

Liu Shi breathed a sigh of relief, smiled at him and said, "That's all right. I'll clean it up, and you can send it away."

Qin Dafu said: "Let Erxian send it off."

Mrs. Liu glanced at it, and said: "You should go and send it, remember to show it to Dad." Turning around, she went into the house to tidy up again, took out [-] coins, put them on hemp rope and handed them to Qin Dafu, saying: "This Happy new year to dad."

Qin Dafu thought for a while and said: "Let's forget it, we don't have anything, and we have to marry Daye a wife, so let's keep the money. Take another fifty dollars."

Mrs. Liu was very happy to hear him say that, this was the first time he had planned this for his small family.She said: "That's fine, anyway, they haven't separated now, why don't we honor them after our parents separate." Then she went to exchange money for him.

Qin Dafu took it to Mrs. Zhang.

Mrs. Zhang had already received a letter saying that someone had delivered something to her aunt's house, and she was waiting at home to see if Mrs. Liu would deliver it.Now seeing his son coming but not his wife, he asked, "Where is your wife?"

Qin Dafu smiled and said: "She is busy cleaning at home, mother, these are meat and bones, they are all for others' work, and they are a New Year's gift from them. In addition, it is fifty yuan. We are filial to our parents, not much. ,It can only be this way."

Fifty dollars is naturally a lot for Mrs. Zhang, but she was thinking about the money Liu and the others went to work at Zhou's house. Before, there was more than 100 dollars a month for embroidering insoles, so she might have more money now. ?

Otherwise, why do people still send Chinese New Year meat?

"Dafu, that's all?" Mrs. Zhang turned her face down, and then glared at Qin Dafu, wanting to force him to change his marriage and do the girl's job.

Seeing this, Qin Dafu immediately said: "Mother, I'm going to see my father." After saying that, he turned around and went out to the cellar, where old Qin Tou almost wove mats day and night except for sleeping and eating.

Qin Dafu went down to the cellar, "Father, it's almost New Year's Eve, so don't make it up, come up and rest, it's okay if you can't see the sun all day."

Old Qin said: "It's okay, I'm so old, and I've only been doing it for a few years. Can you go to old Chen's house to weave seats?"

Qin Dafu hummed, "It's okay, dad, why don't you sell the mats to their family, although it's a little cheaper, but you can sell them all at once."

Old Qin said: "No need, I only make a few seats a year, it's better to go to the market for snacks, and it's okay to exchange some food when I come back."

Qin Dafu asked again: "Father, do we have enough food for our family?"

Lao Qin lowered his head and continued to weave the mat quickly. His callused hands were covered with cuts from the mat strips, each of which was heavy, and every time it was not good, it turned into callus skin.

Old Qintou said: "Is there not enough food for the Chinese New Year? Go ask your mother and ask her to share the two buckets for you. I said Dafu, don't be ashamed, let the child go to his grandma's house to borrow it. I will borrow it later. That's it."

Qin Dafu said: "His grandma's family married three daughters this year, and they will have to marry a wife for Liu Sheng next year, and the family is not rich. We borrowed some from the second uncle, the third uncle, and Li Zheng's family. That's enough. I am Said that if there is not enough here, I will bring some."

Old Qintou sighed: "No need, the families are separated, you can live your life well, you borrowed it yourself, what else do you want to give here. Take the children and work hard."

Qin Dafu agreed, stepped forward and said, "Father, I'll weave it for you for a while, you can take a rest." He remembered that when he was a child, his father taught him to weave mats by hand. Said, "It's okay, it will be fine after grinding out the cocoon in two years."

At that time, Dad's hands were still strong and powerful, but now they are trembling slightly.Looking at the old Qin's hands, Qin Dafu's eyes were sore and swollen.

Old Qintou didn't need it, he said: "No, I can make it myself, and your family can help clean it up, and dig a cellar to weave mats in the next year, so you don't have to go to other people's houses all the time. The men are not at home, just a few women, It's scary."

Qin Dafu hummed, thought for a while and said: "Father, um, what my elder sister told Daye and Xiuqin about the marriage..." He hesitated for a moment and glanced at Old Qin.

Old Qin didn't even raise his head, and continued: "We have separated, and the children's marriage is up to you as husband and wife. You are the parents of the child, so what you do for the child is your business. What can others say."

With father's words, Qin Dafu heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Then what my elder sister said about changing relatives, I don't think so. After all, they are much better than us, and changing relatives is not so rewarding." strength."

Old Qintou hummed, "You and the child's mother can make up their own minds." While talking, his subordinates didn't stop, as if reluctant to waste a little time.

Qin Dafu got up to say goodbye, climbed up, and saw Mrs. Zhang blocking the door, he smiled and said: "Mother, you want to go down."

Mrs. Zhang snorted, "I'm looking for you." Then she dragged him into the house.

In the cellar, Old Qin coughed heavily, and shouted: "Let his family go to work, it's going to be Chinese New Year."

Seeing what the old man said, Mrs. Zhang didn't dare to force her to stay, so she said: "Let your wife come over when you have time, I can't even see her now."

Qin Dafu hummed and went out, Xiuli ran out, "Master, I'm going to play with my sister."

Qin Dafu led her away.

(End of this chapter)