Rebirth of a farmer's daughter

Chapter 46 Leftovers
Time flies in the blink of an eye.In a flash, Qianjin has lived here for half a year.Looking at the dishes on the table, Qianjin felt very sad.

Mrs. Yu prepared a sumptuous meal, hoping to reunite the family happily for the new year, but was rejected.Since Mrs. Wang has no benefit at all, she speaks extremely harshly, just to give Mrs. Liu an excuse, saying that her elder brother's family is not together, so they won't be able to come. So this year's Chinese New Year is the loneliest Mrs. Yu and Mr. Zhou have ever lived of a year.

The table is full of dishes, all carefully prepared by Mrs. Yu, just wanting everyone to have a happy reunion night.For this reason, I also specially bought meat and sweet-scented osmanthus cakes that I had never tried before, intending to serve them as snacks for the children.But at this point, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Liu are still dissatisfied. What they want is money, and they haven't seen what Mrs. Yu has done.

"Father, mother, let's eat." Seeing their uncomfortable and lonely eyes, Qianjin felt heavy in her heart... She thought to herself: In the past, the old people always said that the son married a wife and forgot his mother, so they can live together Look up, look up and look down, is it true that for the sake of your daughter-in-law, you have forgotten the parents who raised you up?
"Eat, such a good dish, if you don't eat it, it's a waste." Old man Zhou nodded in agreement, picked up a piece of braised pork with his chopsticks, and said with a smile: "In previous years, I couldn't eat such a good braised pork ..."

"Don't worry about eating by yourself, just grab a piece of braised pork for your daughter, it's so far away, she can't reach it." Mrs. Yu also came to her senses, knowing that after the separation, eating together is just a luxury, and she can only express her disappointment. I kept the discomfort in my heart, and I didn't want everyone to feel bad.

"Mother, after the Chinese New Year, I'm already nine years old. Don't treat me like a child." Qianjin acted coquettishly, stood up and stretched out her chopsticks to pick up a piece of braised pork, and said childishly, "Look, am I growing up?" grown up?"

Mrs. Yu and old man Zhou looked at her actions, they looked at each other, and couldn't help laughing.

Because of Qianjin's jokes, the atmosphere finally got better.

Because his family was poor, Mrs. Yu didn't buy fireworks, but there are some villages with good conditions, such as Master Yun who lives in Zhoucun, who bought high-quality fireworks, so the New Year in Zhoucun was much more lively than previous years.

On the first day of the first lunar month, women and children visit each other to have fun.And the men all got together to play dice and have a little gamble to add some atmosphere to the New Year.

No matter how upset Wang and Liu are, this time Yu is not prepared to compromise, and they have no choice but to let their children get up early to pay New Year's greetings to their grandparents, so as to get a small amount of red envelopes.For five children, Mrs. Yu gave Zhou Hong's children two copper coins each, and each of the second child's three copper coins, which happened to be six for each family.

Looking at the six copper coins, Mrs. Wang was so angry that she turned a corner and satirized the daughter for being stingy, not acting like an elder, and the daughter turned a deaf ear to it, pretending that she hadn't heard it.

She knew that Mrs. Wang was eyeing her own money, and if she gave in once, Mrs. Wang would definitely get worse in the future, so she didn't bother to look at Mrs. Wang, and went to have fun on her own.

After the second day of the new year, everyone has to pay New Year's greetings to relatives.Yu's home is not in Zhoucun, but a small mountain village not far from Zhoucun. Because it is not close to the sea, the people in it all rely on farming for a living, and their lives are worse than those in Zhoucun.

"Qianjin, your uncle has not been in good health since the old year, so don't go there, mother will go back." Yu thought that it would not be worthwhile to give Qianjin if he was sick, so Packed up more important annual gifts than in previous years, and went to see my eldest brother and sister-in-law.

"Okay!" Qian Jin nodded without refusing.

As for her uncle, when she heard that Mrs. Wang was dissatisfied, she mentioned that a person who is rather lazy but likes to drink is not welcomed by others.But in Yu's eyes, that was the only family member of her natal family, and no matter what, she had to be cared about in her heart.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Mrs. Yu and old man Zhou went away to relatives, and Qianjin stayed at home alone.As for the eldest brother and second brother's house, it seemed quite lively, because both of them had guests.And they never opened their mouths to let them go, which made Qianjin feel even more disliked by Zhou Hong and Zhou Quan.

It's not that she was greedy for the excitement, but that they knew that their parents had gone out in the morning, and they were the only one left at home. No matter what, they had to pretend to be polite, but they didn't even want to maintain basic courtesy. Qian Jin was always thinking: Are they really Yu's own?

Don't talk about myself, even to old man Zhou and the others, I haven't seen the two elder brothers being very filial, so there is always a trace of doubt in my heart.

When Qianjin woke up from a daze, the sun was already in the middle, and her stomach was growling.In the past few days, all I ate were leftovers from the New Year's Eve dinner. I just finished eating yesterday, so I have to cook today's meal by myself.When Qian Jingang got up to go to the kitchen, he heard someone calling himself.

"Qianjin..." The continuous voice outside the door made Qianjin sure that she had heard correctly, so she walked to the door and opened it and replied, "I'm in the room!"

"Hehe, my daughter." The person who came was Wang's mother, a woman who smiled at everyone, and gave people a relatively comfortable feeling. This was the first impression she gave.

"Grandma." Qianjin called out very politely.

The custom here is that whoever comes to the elders will shout along with the youngest children.For example, when Mrs. Yu saw Mrs. Wang's mother, she would call her "Grandma" if she was more polite, so she called her this way, which was regarded as respecting her.

"Hey, your parents are not at home, your sister-in-law is busy in the kitchen, let me bring you food." Wang Lishi moved forward the bowl she was carrying with a smile.

"How dare you do this?" Qian Jin immediately said with regret when she heard this, and turned her body sideways and said, "Grandma, please sit inside for a while!"

"No, your sister-in-law is still busy. I'll help out. You, take the food and go to the kitchen to eat first." After Wang Lishi put the bowl into Qianjin's hand, she turned around before she could say anything more. left.

Looking at the full noodles in her hands, there are shredded eggs on top, shredded pork and dried shrimps, etc., making Qianjin very puzzled: This Wang's Chinese New Year is very wrong, how could he think of giving it to him? What about delivering meals yourself?
But no matter how confused she was, thinking that there was a ready-made meal, she would not refuse, so she took the rice bowl and went to the stove, not even noticing that there was someone standing at the window in the opposite room looking at her.After seeing her go in, people started gossiping in the house.

"You are just stupid." Seeing Qianjin entering the kitchen with a bowl, Wang Lishi turned around and sat by the bed, scolding her daughter who had been complaining since she came in, "Look, it's just a bowl." As for the matter in front of you, are you so fussy?"

"Mom, why are you helping others?" When Wang heard this, she cursed dissatisfiedly: "When I saw her, I was full of anger. How could I want to treat her well! She is holding money in her hand, and a penny Even the old lady helped her, making me feel like an outsider!"

"Hush, keep your voice down, the next door is not easy!" Seeing that her voice was getting louder, Wang Li immediately stopped her to persuade her.

"It's not simple. It made me anxious. I want her to get out, and I don't want to see whose place it is!" Wang Shi relied on herself as the big house, so she didn't have so many scruples about Liu Shi.

"Don't be so impulsive, did you forget what you wrote when you separated?" Seeing that her daughter was so angry during the Chinese New Year, Mrs. Wang and Li comforted her softly: "This Mrs. Yu and the others will belong to their daughters in the future. The scruples will not be left to your family, in the future, if you look up and look down, it's better not to make too much noise!"

(End of this chapter)