Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 66

Xiuting and Xiumei didn't pick up wheat, but picked out the unripe green ears of wheat and rubbed them in their hands. The jade-colored wheat grains poured into the mouth, it was very sweet to eat.

If the adults hadn't left, they wouldn't have dared to steal food so blatantly in the field, and would be scolded by the head of Qin for wasting food when they saw it.

Xiuyao and the others walked home after picking up the area they were in charge of, passing by the river, Xiurong said: "Let's go wash our faces, it's so hot." After saying that, he put down the bundle of wheat and rushed to the river, She washed her face with water first, then took off her straw sandals and soaked her feet in the water. She was so comfortable that she cried out, "It's so comfortable, come quickly."

Xiuyao and Xiuxian also went there. When washing her face, Xiuyao felt a little stinging, so she washed it twice casually, and then went up to let the sisters go home together.

The setting sun is slanting to the west, the afterglow is long, and the sunset glow has turned half of the sky red. The sky is close to the water, and the water is connected to the sky. It is so red that it seems that the sky and the earth are burning.On the river, a group of white geese are paddling leisurely and peacefully, and the weeping willows by the water are shining in the water and swinging in the wind.Xiuyao looked at the quiet and beautiful rural scenery with a slight smile, and felt that all the fatigue was swept away, and a kind of tenderness surged in her heart.

"The morning glow doesn't go out, the sunset glow travels thousands of miles, and it's going to be a hot day tomorrow." Xiuyao squinted her eyes at the setting sun and said softly.

At this time, the sound of a horse's hooves slapping came from behind her. When she looked back, she saw a man galloping past. That horse was really good. Every time she saw her, she sighed.Immediately, the man rode his horse past, and suddenly reined in the horse. The horse neighed, almost stood up, and then followed the master's strength to retreat a few steps and turned around.

Qi Feng reined in his horse, looked at the little girl sitting on the ground, her face was flushed, she had become thinner due to labor, but her eyes also appeared bigger, the sunset glow fell in her eyes, beautiful and bright.

Xiuyao also saw him, perhaps because the beautiful twilight confused her, she was not afraid, instead she smiled at him and waved her hand, "What a coincidence."

Qi Feng couldn't help laughing, he would come to work every once in a while, of course it wasn't a coincidence, he turned his horse's head without saying a word, and galloped away again.

Xiuyao couldn't help but said: "It's so fast and reckless, it's strange if you don't bump into it."

Xiuxian turned her head and asked, "Who is it?"

Xiuyao said: "It's the one you said was scary, who exchanged sweet potatoes for our cakes."

When Xiuxian heard that it was him, she came up and said, "What is he doing here?"

Xiuyao smiled, how could she know, she called Xiurong to get up quickly.

Xiuxian carried Xiuyao's sheaf of wheat on her back, and the three sisters went home.

As soon as she got home, Mrs. Zhang scolded: "Why did you come back? Where did you go to be lazy?"

Xiuxian said: "We are not lazy, we go home after picking up the wheat, and wash our feet by the river."

Mrs. Zhang shouted: "You are still lying, you ran away before you finished picking, and you dare to steal the ears of wheat, do you deserve a beating?"

Xiuxian turned her head to look at Xiumei, and she saw the three girls whispering to each other at the door of the East Wing, giggling in a low voice, looking this way, their eyes full of provocation.

Xiuxian said angrily: "Obviously Xiumei and the others ate, but we didn't eat at all."

Xiuyao sighed a little, but it was just a few ears of wheat, and they had already been harvested anyway, wouldn't they be eaten raw or cooked?Moreover, the less ripe wheat grains would shrivel up in the sun, so it would be better to eat them raw.Mrs. Zhang always acts strangely, and this should be treated as a big deal.

But Mrs. Zhang felt as if she had caught something. She glanced at Mrs. Liu and said, "Da Yeniang, if you don't go to the field, these girls will have no jurisdiction. You have to talk about them."

Mrs. Liu glanced at them, then at those in the East Wing, and said, "Mother, Er Man'er is not lying, if she said she didn't eat, she didn't eat."

The second aunt suddenly became unhappy, "So, you mean we ate beautifully?"

Xiuyao glanced at her, this second aunt is the stupid one, she just blah if she doesn't like it, she doesn't have the consciousness of a big family at all.Usually they live under the same roof, even if something is wrong, out of face, they seldom talk about it, this second aunt is good, she never bears it at all, and always feels that the big house owes her.

So, today's matter isn't just about Maizi?I'm afraid it's because my mother is not used to them recently, and thinking of the reason, Xiuyao is even less afraid.

Liu Shi changed her gentle and virtuous image in the past, and said: "Don't tell me, according to what we know about the girls, it's all about your beauty."

As soon as Xiumei heard this, she quit, "Mom, my aunt arranges for me."

The second aunt walked towards Liu Shi angrily, her eyes widened with anger, and she said sharply: "Sister-in-law, what are you talking about? Did you see it? I also said that you are stealing meat at home."

Liu Shi said: "I didn't see it, and I know what you look like. What you said is not bad. We have eaten meat at home, and we didn't eat it secretly."

The second aunt immediately said to Zhang: "Mother, don't you care?"

Mrs. Zhang turned around and walked out, "I also have to go to the field to see, they are all busy cutting wheat." After saying that, she lifted her foot and went out.

As soon as Mrs. Zhang left, there were only a bunch of women and maids left in the family. The second aunt thought that Mrs. Zhang didn't care about her quarreling with her sister-in-law, so she couldn't help being a little proud, and hummed at Mrs. Liu: "I don't see you doing work, but stealing food."

Xiuxian became angry, "Who are you talking about?"

Mrs. Liu stopped her, "Why are you talking to the elders? You don't go into the house to rest for a while, but you have to go to the venue to help." When Mrs. Liu spoke, Xiuxian didn't dare to say anything, Xiuxian didn't say anything, and the other daughters Be good, the grandpas didn't come home, and they couldn't cook, so they just lay on the east kang and looked out of the window.

Second Aunt contemptuously said to Liu Shi: "Is this how you teach your daughter to talk to the elders? You have the nerve to say that you are polite all day long."

Liu's eyebrows raised, "I never said that I was polite, that was what other people said, my father said. Besides, Xiumei's attitude is worse than this when talking to me, not to mention, you are no better. "

The second aunt was blocked by Liu Shi's words. She was indeed younger than Liu Shi. Although the younger brother was not a junior in front of his elder brother, he had to be obedient like a junior, and the sister-in-law was naturally too.

The second aunt was naturally not to be outdone, "No matter what, I'm better than you. I'm biased. I rely on us to eat, but I still steal behind our backs all day long."

The third aunt over there wanted to persuade the second aunt, but she was afraid of being entangled, so she went out of the east chamber quietly, leaving the second aunt and Liu Shi to quarrel, and Liu Shi seemed determined to fight with the second aunt. Auntie is right to the end.

She twitched her lips sarcastically, "Who do you think is relying on whom? Daye and I don't go to help workers to make money, but you can try to see if you can still have the strength to bicker with me like this when you are full?"

Old Qin's family rented and planted so much land that they couldn't get enough to eat, let alone exchange money. Now the family's money is basically earned by them. You think you have done a lot to support your family? You don’t even think about it, who do you support. You always talk about helping the big house raise children, my children eat more of you, or do you eat more of us? "

Just as the second aunt was about to retort, Liu continued: "I didn't have the same knowledge as you. Under the same roof, we are a family. Everyone should give in. Who knows that you are less and less shameless, and you are talking about this all day long. Um, an empress competes with girls all day long, it's so ugly. She also talks about helping our eldest family raise children all day long. You really think you are a Bodhisattva, right? Without you, this family would be better off, no one Quarreling, no one is free to instigate right and wrong."

After finishing speaking, she walked out without giving the second aunt a chance.

The second aunt was so angry that she chased after two steps, but she couldn't speak again, so she slapped her thigh angrily, "Oh my mother, it's because I depend on you to support me. What's the reason? Let's go and find my father-in-law to judge. I don’t need you to support me, let’s divide the family and see who will starve to death.”

As she said that, she rushed up and grabbed Liu Shi and dragged her away.

Mrs. Liu pushed her away vigorously, "I have legs myself, so I don't need you. Dad is coming back for dinner soon, so you can just tell him. But, I can warn you, I didn't say we want to separate, I just said It's wrong for you to think that you are raising our eldest house, but we are actually raising you, whether you believe it or not, that's the way it is anyway."

The second aunt is just angry that Mrs. Liu doesn't follow her own wishes. She always thought that the second room was helping the eldest family to raise the children, and the second room was contributing a lot. She didn't expect Liu to think that it was their eldest family who contributed a lot, and the second room was supported by them. How could she not I was so angry that the seven orifices smoked.

She walked out angrily, just as the old Qintou came back, Ergui and Qinye were watching, and later the old Qintou went back to replace them with dinner.

They were talking about the gossip they had just heard. It was said that someone lit a lamp to cut wheat at night, but the lantern fell, and a fire started and burned a large area of ​​the wheat field. The weather was dry and windy, and several houses were burned down.It was also said that it rained heavily when the wheat was harvested in the neighboring county, and the wheat was flooded. If they were taken back, they would germinate and lose more than half of them. It's a pity that she sold her daughter.

Old Qintou said: "We are doing pretty well this year. God give me a face. Everyone cheer up and watch carefully. Don't start a fire somewhere. It's raining heavily in the neighboring county, maybe we will come to our place, but You have to snatch it back as soon as possible, and you will be killed even if you call Yulin."

Qin Dafu and the others agreed, "Father, we will take turns sleeping and watching in the field at night, so as not to let anyone make trouble." Attract attention, then steal food or break in to steal things, mainly livestock.

Old Qintou said again: "Has Lizheng organized the villagers to patrol? Why haven't you heard of it?"

Qin Sanshun smiled and said: "Father, we are so busy in the field that we don't see anyone. In fact, they have already organized it."

Old Qintou hummed, "In this way, the food we pay will not be a loss." The village organizes villagers to patrol every year to prevent those gangsters from coming out to make trouble and steal. In the past, every household sent out people, and then guarded and patrolled in sections.But the family is too busy to spare people to go on patrol, so they pay some food, and Lizheng will organize people to be responsible for patrolling matters, usually they are the family members of the big family, and in Taoyuan Village, it is naturally Zhou's family.

The former Taoyuan is Uncle Zhou's house, and Zhou Xiaoli's hands cannot get in, so Old Qin is not worried.

As soon as the few people arrived at the door, they saw the second aunt coming up angrily, and said in a rough voice: "Father, you have to uphold justice. The date has not been issued, I think we should live separately."

One sentence nailed a group of people to the ground, Qin Dafu looked at her in surprise, this second child's family is really getting more and more unreliable, when she is in such a hurry, she dared to tell her father to separate the family, what a shame Not enough.

Zhang's understanding of Old Qintou was as familiar as the money box she was in charge of. She immediately scolded: "The second one, why don't you pack it up at home?"

Qin Sanshun smiled and said: "Second sister-in-law, are you sleepy and staring?"

Old Qin pulled his face and put his hands behind his back. He was so busy these days that he didn't even bother to smoke a pack of cigarettes. Now that the cigarette pack was in his hand, he wanted to take a puff of cigarettes to relieve fatigue when he entered the house, but this didn't work. The idiot who saw it came to make things difficult for him, and I wished I could whip her a few times with a pipe or pot.

However, Old Qin just thought about it and held back, "Eat." Then he walked inside.

When the second aunt saw that her father-in-law was not angry, she said loudly again: "Father, you have to uphold justice. Listen to what my sister-in-law said. She said that our second wife knows how to eat if we don't work, and their eldest wife does everything." Well, it’s their big house that earns money to support us, and I work day and night, so I didn’t earn any good words? She said she would support us, but I think it’s fine to divide the family. I don’t need her to support me, and I don’t Don't feed her."

Old Qin snorted and asked, "Where's Daye Niang?"

Mrs. Liu came out from the yard, "Father, I'm here."

Old Qin said angrily: "You all come here." As he spoke, he walked into the house.

The second aunt followed up proudly, Qin Dafu glanced at Liu Shi, and said in a low voice: "Daughter-in-law, what's going on?"

Liu Shi said: "I don't know, the second child's family has no nose and no face when they see me, and they are very angry, probably because they think I didn't go to the field."

Qin Dafu frowned, "It's father's idea not to go to the farm. Besides, you earn more money if you don't go to the farm. Of course, it's better to go to the Zhou family to help."

Liu Shi smiled, "Fool, I don't think like you do."

Seeing Old Qin coming back with a groaning head, Xiuyao and the others also surrounded him and greeted him one after another.

Old Qintou waved his hand, "Girls eat first." After saying that, he entered the east room, kicked off his shoes and got on the kang, Qin Sanshun hurried up to pack a bag of cigarettes for him and lit it.

Mrs. Zhang also sat on the edge of the kang, looking proudly at the daughters-in-law, hum, let you challenge me on weekdays, and let the old man take care of you.

(End of this chapter)