Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 2

Xianglai mother said: "Mother doesn't want to do this either, but your father is gone, mother and your second aunt can't support the appearance, and your father's lawsuit requires your uncle to run away. We have to rely on others for many things, and are not affected by others." How can I do my job?"

In the spring, Dad Xianglai opened up a wasteland near the gold mine in the south, but the people in the gold mine insisted that the land was a gold mine, and Dad Xianglai was stealing their gold. A dispute arose between the two parties. Dad was beaten to death alive.

The gold mine is the property of a well-known rich man in Huikang Mansion, and no one dares to manage it even if someone is killed. Xianglai’s uncle went to the county government several times for this matter, and Xianglai’s mother and second aunt gave away all the silver and valuables in the family. I took out all the things I had, but the litigator I was looking for has not even handed over the pleadings. The uncle is not at home today, so he is urging this matter again.

When Chen Xianglai first heard about it, she knew it must be a lost lawsuit, and if she continued to toss it, it would be a waste of time for the litigator, but Xianglai Niang and Tian Lai Niang didn't agree that the man died in vain, and they just wanted to find a place to reason .

Chen Xianglai was powerless to deal with these things, she couldn't persuade the two mothers that it's fine for her father to die in vain, and don't take any revenge.

The two women hugged each other without talking, each thinking about their own concerns.

After a while, seeing that the old sow didn't move around anymore, she found a mud pit and rolled around, Chen Xianglai went forward to drive the pig up, and went home with her mother.

The two women drove the pig into the pen and closed the door, and went into the middle room together.

In the early years, the back half of the house was the kitchen, and the front half was the living room. Later, when Shen Dachang got married and had no place to live, he tidied up the living room and made it up for the time being. The family also ate in their room.

When the couple entered the room, they heard the clink of bowls and bowls. Shen Dachang's daughter-in-law, Wu Zhaodi, Xianglai's cousin, seemed to be cleaning the kitchen.While tidying up, she complained: "Look at your second aunt, who cooks quietly, and can't bring back three sticks of firewood. It's not as good as your second aunt, who can herd a cow anyway, and look at it." Look at this, who treats himself as a painting all day long and uses his feelings as a scene, and he doesn't know where to hide in this blink of an eye! There are a dozen or so members of the family, and I am the only one who waits on me, and sincerely treats me like an old mother... ..."

Shen Dachang's voice sounded weakly: "She went to ask Xianglai to come back for dinner."

It's okay not to say, Wu Zhaodi's voice became a little higher when she said it: "It took so long to call someone! Besides, such a big girl, she doesn't know that she is hungry, and she still needs someone to call after a meal..."

As he spoke, he began to babble again: "Your second uncle is also like that. With a few pennies, he considers himself a lord in the city. He marries a daughter-in-law and two of them. Now that he's gone, who will take care of the four money-losers? Xianglai That girl is about to get married, so how much dowry will she have to put on? What's more, we are all counting on us for the end of the pension... This day will not be able to live, and I will spend the rest of my life cleaning up the mess for your second uncle, making them so burdensome, what can we call a daughter-in-law when our family treasure grows up..."

Mr. Shen's daughters-in-law are notoriously hard to mess with, no matter if they are old or young.In the past, the eldest aunt was like this, but after Wu Zhaodi entered the door, she carried forward the family style and managed Shen Dachang submissively. Even the eldest aunt lost three points in front of her daughter-in-law. If you don't coax her well, there will be endless expressions on her face when she can't move in the future.

Listening to the voice inside, the mother and wife unconsciously slowed down.

Chen Xianglai looked at his mother's face, and saw that her face was gray and choked, as ugly as if someone had slapped her.

Chen Xianglai sighed secretly, and thought: It's really hard to live this day, it's better to be separated if you are so disgusted by others, everyone has hands and feet, maybe they can still starve to death.

Thinking of her shaking her mother's hand hard, she raised her voice and said, "Mother, have Second Aunt and Tianlai returned, I want to wait for them to eat together."

Xianglai Niang and Tianlai got along very well, not like two daughters-in-law, but like two sisters, and the two children also called each other's mother, aunt and second aunt, unlike other people's family who called them aunt and aunt.

Xiang Lai Niang didn't expect her daughter to be so sensible, and since she felt embarrassed when she heard others scolding her behind her back, she didn't get angry and argue with others, and she even helped herself out of embarrassment in such a tactful way.

So she also shook Xianglai's hand, and said: "Your second aunt and Tianlai won't come back at noon, she brought dry food when she left this morning, and said she wanted to collect more firewood with Tianlai."

After hearing the two talking, the chatter in the kitchen finally stopped.

When the couple went into the kitchen, they saw that everything had been taken down, and they didn't intend to keep it for Xianglai at all.

Xiang Lai Niang opened the cupboard and looked, there was only some soup leftovers left, she turned her head and saw Wu Zhaodi stretching her face and wiping the table vigorously, she looked at Xiang Lai and said, "Xiang'er can eat here in the cupboard."

Shen Dachang was worried that his wife would hear what he said just now, so he stood up and went out quietly.

Seeing this, Wu Zhaodi threw the rag on the table and went into the house to lie down, making it clear that the messy kitchen was left for the couple to clean up.

Xianglai Niang scraped the leftovers from the basin into a bowl for Xianglai, rolled up her sleeves and went to wash the dishes.

Xianglai took a look at the bowl and asked, "Mother, have you eaten yet?"

Xiang Lai Niang didn't look up, said: "Yes, mother has eaten."

Xianglai knew that she was telling lies, and counted when she went out, it was impossible for her mother to eat when she went to ask her to mention it.

She knew that if she explained this matter at this time, it would only make her mother more sad, so she held the bowl and chewed the rice grains in her mouth dullly, and said while eating: "Mother, it's not like my daughter is old-age. In the future, I will definitely let you Live a good life, Tianlai is the same, he will grow up one day, the four of us can't survive."

Xianglai Niang almost shed tears when she heard the first half of her sentence, but it was only after hearing the second half that she realized that she was speaking to the Dachang couple in the back room, she turned her head and shook her head at Xianglai.

Wu Zhaodi lay in the back room and heard it, muttering in a neither high nor low voice: "Hmph, I don't believe that I can bring my mother there after finding my husband's house!"

Xianglai didn't want to continue fighting with her like this, so she took a few mouthfuls of rice from the bowl, washed the bowl with her mother, cleaned up the kitchen, and went back to her home in the west room to take a nap for a while.

In the afternoon, it was cutting grass to feed sheep, herding pigs, sweeping the yard, hoeing the vegetable field... It was a mess, Chen Xianglai admired this aunt very much, somehow she was able to do so much work, so I will give it to her before I finish it. Assign the next thing.

Uncle Shen Wanjin came back in the evening, and seeing Xianglai Niang and Wu Zhaodi washing the clothes at the front of their house, he reprimanded Wu Zhaodi, "Daughter-in-law Dachang, how can you let your second aunt wash our clothes!"

Regarding her father-in-law's words, Wu Zhaodi didn't listen to her father-in-law no matter how hard she snatched the clothes from Delai Niang's hand and threw them into her own basin, muttering angrily as she walked into the house: "The work belongs to the two families." , how to eat is a family..."

(End of this chapter)