The peasant's daughter-in-law of crossing

Chapter 20

After returning home, Yingniang saw a middle-aged man sawing wood in the yard, and she understood what was going on.

"Zhaodi, parents are going to give you and Zhongping a new home."

Zhaodi was surprised and happy, but she couldn't believe it, "Really?"

At this time, Yang Sanniang came out of the main room with a bowl of water and handed it to the carpenter.She looked at Zhaodi's shy face again, it was really not ugly, but the spot on her face..., oh, don't look at it, "Of course it's true, parents will not treat you and Zhongping badly. You Father is chopping down trees behind the house, and he's going to make new beds for you."

Zhaodi was secretly happy, and was about to tell her mother-in-law about being a laborer, but she didn't know what to say, so she looked at Yingniang.

Yingniang told her mother-in-law all about recruiting short-term workers from Zhen Yuan's family from beginning to end.

Yang Sanniang was overjoyed when she heard that, "Is there really such a good thing? If you both learn well, you can earn fourteen coins a day together?"

Yingniang and Zhaodi both nodded.

Yang Sanniang was so happy that she didn't know what to do. Seeing the two of them carrying cloth in their hands, she hurriedly said, "You two don't do any work today, just stay at home and cut cloth and make clothes. I wonder if Bo Ming can come back sooner." , don't go late and it won't be his turn." She anxiously looked outside the courtyard gate.

"Mother, don't worry, I heard that housekeeper Yin said that there are a lot of people, and it must be my turn."

Yang Sanniang was relieved when she heard that many people were needed.Suddenly, she bluffed again, "It would be great if Zhongping and the others could go too. I don't know if Landlord Ge will let the three of them go." She ran to the back of the house to discuss with Father Xue.

Father Xue heard that Yingniang and Zhaodi had found jobs, and that Boming might be able to go, so he was very happy, but when Yang Sanniang said that he wanted Zhongping and Zhongping to go, he quickly shook his head, "That's not possible, although Landlord Ge’s family only gave the three brothers a total of [-] catties of grain a year, but it’s equivalent to [-] Wen. What’s more, grain is becoming more and more expensive, and the price may rise. Doesn’t our family rely on these [-] catties of grain to make money? Pay taxes, pay [-] catties of grain for the land tax, pay another [-] catties of grain for the population tax, and leave [-] catties for your own food. Now that there are two more people in the family, there is no shortage of food. I am afraid that the corn harvest will not be good, it is full of flying insects, and a lot of them have been eaten."

After being reminded by Father Xue, Yang Sanniang also figured it out, "It's because you thought it right, I was confused. Landlord Ge's house is a long-term job, so you can't throw it away. If you insist on throwing it away and want to go back later, Ge The landlord is definitely not willing, and I am afraid he will scold people. And Zhen Yuan’s family is looking for short-term labor, and there may be no work for him someday."

"That's the reason. You have to be careful when you make any decision. Don't say that the wind is the rain. Come, help me push this tree together."

Yang Sanniang and Father Xue pushed together and knocked down the crooked fir tree.Then the two carried the tree and entered the yard one after the other.

Yingniang helps Zhaodi cut cloth together in her room.He said he was helping her, but he was actually learning from her.Although Yingniang is skillful with her hands, she has no memory of her previous life. She can only say that her hands are smooth and her body is full of strength, but she still needs to learn skills.

Zhaodi may have not made new clothes for a long time, and her hands trembled slightly when cutting the cloth, for fear of cutting the cloth wrong.

"Zhaodi, how many people are there in your natal family?" Yingniang sat beside her idle, so she chatted with her.

"There are seven people. Apart from my parents, I have two elder sisters above me and two younger brothers below me. Both elder sisters were married in the valley of our Qishan Mountain. I don't know what happened to their two families due to the drought. Live. My father and mother took fifty Wen from my parents-in-law yesterday evening, and took my two younger brothers to the county town to beg for food." Zhaodi said with twinkling eyes, and tears were about to fall.

Yingniang hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, after the drought is over, you can still grow some grains, your parents will definitely bring the two younger brothers home."

Zhaodi was very worried, "Even if the rain comes in summer, it won't be worth anything if parents can go home and plant something else. There is a severe drought every two or three years in our mountain, and the wheat in spring Almost all dried to death, when will the days of starvation be the end of it."

"Can you move your family out and settle in another village?"

"How can there be such a good thing? If the government doesn't agree, no one dares to move out. If you move out of the mountains, if others don't give you land, you will still starve." Zhaodi sighed deeply, "It's still here in Yongzhen Well, although it’s not rich, at least it’s enough to eat.”

At this moment, they heard Yang Sanniang yelling in the yard: "Hey, Bo Ming came back early, hurry up! Go to the town, the family of Zhen Yuan's family recruits part-time workers to open up wasteland, and the daily wages are nine Wen, and they also take care of lunch." Miles, let's go!"

Before Boming put down the firewood load, Yang Sanniang kept urging him.

"Really? Does Yingniang know?" Boming put down his burden and looked around.

"Of course she knows, she came back and told me, you go quickly! Don't go too late and it won't be your turn!" Yang Sanniang grimaced anxiously.

Before he had time to ask about the situation, Boming said in a hurry: "I only picked half a bag of wild peaches, and the ones on the mountain have been snatched up by others. You can eat them." Seeing Yingniang coming out of Zhaodi's room and looking at him, he smiled at her and ran away quickly.

Father Xue was helping the carpenter cut the branches of the newly cut tree. Seeing Yang Sanniang in such a hurry, he snorted and said, "You girl who can't calm down at all."

Yang Sanniang glanced at Father Xue sheepishly, then opened the bag that Boming had put down, smacked her lips and said, "The peaches were robbed before they were ripe. Look, they are all so small. Mother Ying, come and wash the peaches." Wash it, whether it’s cooked or not, let’s all try it out.”

She took one by herself and just rubbed it on her clothes, then put it in her mouth and bit it, "Hiss...so sour." Then she went into the kitchen and brought out a large pot of stale corn, "I'll go to your second aunt's to grind some Cornmeal, there is not much left at home."

Yingniang came over and poured the wild peaches into the basket, the total was only about five or six catties, they were all green and looked sour.

She washed the wild peaches with well water, handed some to her father-in-law and the carpenter, and brought some to Zhaodi's room, "Zhaodi, you should try it too."

Zhaodi put down the cloth in her hand, took the peach and bit it, "It's sour, but it's also delicious."

Yingniang was so sore that her teeth fell out, "Your mother's family is in the mountains, so you should be able to eat a lot of wild fruits when you go up the mountains, right?"

Zhao Di shook her head, "I can't eat much, and there are often droughts. The trees on the mountain are all dry, and they can't bear much fruit, and they are snatched before they are ripe. Some people leave After the seeds are planted at the door of the house the next year, it may be that these seeds are not mature, they do not germinate at all, and the seeds are white."

Yingniang originally liked peaches very much, but she really couldn't bear to eat this kind of green and small wild peaches.She thought to herself, when she earns money, she will be able to buy big peaches to eat, maybe even buy peach saplings and plant them in front of the house, so she is afraid that there will be no peaches to eat?

After eating the peaches, the two went on to cut the cloth. Seeing that it was getting late, Yingniang and Zhaodi were about to come to the kitchen to make lunch, only to see Yang Sanniang came back holding the basin, her face was red and white.

"Father, go to the second younger brother's house to persuade him, the couple is fighting again." Yang Sanniang panicked.

Father Xue didn't raise his head, "What's the trouble? It's not quiet all day long, don't worry about them."

"I was grinding flour in her yard all the time, and I didn't hear them arguing, so I didn't bother to care about it. But..." Yang Sanniang hesitated to speak, she looked at the carpenter here, and her two daughters-in-law were also in the house, Don't let them hear it.

"But what?" Father Xue finally raised his head.

Seeing Yang Sanniang winking at him and looking very anxious, he understood her thoughts, so he followed her out of the yard.

Yang Sanniang stood outside the courtyard, looking around, and seeing no one coming and going, she dared to whisper: "This matter is really embarrassing. If it gets out, our Xue family will really lose face."

"Why?" Father Xue was a little impatient.

Yang Sanniang paused, and then said, "Jinhua said that your second brother is having an affair with Lu Cui, your daughter-in-law who has only been in the house for two months. Don't you think she is fooling around? There is no such thing as a father-in-law and a daughter-in-law. What is she thinking?" long?"

"What? Isn't this nonsense? If you have some money at home, you can't go to work in the fields, what are you messing around at home?" Father Xue hopped his feet angrily, going to Jinhua's house.

Yang Sanniang ran up to pull him back, "Don't yell nonsense, calm them down first, tell them not to make any noise, if other people listen to it, then it's okay?"

Father Xue was so angry that he threw the hatchet in his hand into his yard, and came to the next yard with Yang Sanniang.

I saw Jin Hua running from the main room to the yard like a madman, opening her mouth to curse, but Yang Sanniang who came in covered her mouth.

Immediately afterwards, Xue Jiazhi, Boming's second uncle, followed out angrily, "You bitch! You..."

"Shut up!" Father Xue shouted at his second brother, "Go into the house, are you yelling so loudly that the whole village can hear it?"

"This stinky bitch has gone crazy, I have to take her home!" Xue Jiazhi didn't feel relieved if he didn't scold.

"Hurry up and get in the house!" Father Xue yelled again, Xue Jiazhi was too embarrassed not to show his eldest brother this face, so he had to turn around and go back to the house.

Father Xue followed his second brother into the main room, and heard a sobbing sound from the back room, which seemed to be Lu Cui crying.

Father Xue said to Yang Sanniang who was outside: "Quickly close the courtyard door, and don't let outsiders in."

Only then did Yang Sanniang let go of her hand, so that Jinhua could catch her breath, but don't hold her back.She ran over to close the courtyard door, and at this moment Jin Hua suddenly sat down on the ground, beating her chest and saying, "Oh my God, what a crime..."

When she cried and yelled, Yang Sanniang was so frightened that she hurriedly covered her mouth again, and said anxiously: "Oh, don't shout loudly, don't let outsiders hear you!"

(End of this chapter)