farmhouse ditty

Chapter 220 came just in time

Gui Xi sat with Chu Ge for about half an hour, and then left. When he was about to leave the house, he even said that on the day of his marriage, he wanted to invite Chu Ge and Xiu Niang back for a wedding wine.

Xiuniang agreed, but Chu Ge didn't say anything, just chatted with Guixi and went elsewhere, and then sent him to Qianjie to catch a car.

Old man Li was taking a lazy nap in the house earlier, and just heard a sound in the yard, which woke him up. He sat for a while sober, took out the cigarette stick and came out.

He looked at Xiuniang sweeping the yard, guessing that he was waiting for Chu Ge, so he said he would go out too. Xiuniang knew that he was going to play chess with those old men at the back alley, so she agreed with a smile. One sound.

Xiuniang packed up the fallen leaves in the yard and waited for Chu Ge to come back. She wanted him to stay at home and leave the door open for her. The day after tomorrow would be the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th, so she had to go buy some Things for the holidays, and some meat and vegetables to buy back.

Although there is nothing to be busy in the town for the holidays, it's just that Chu Fu and his wife have gone back to pick up Father Chu and the others, and the whole family will have to have a meal together, so she must be prepared to make a good meal, and Then she called...

She was thinking about how to celebrate the holidays, when she suddenly heard some movement outside the door, as if someone was coming, the two of them were smiling and coming towards her, old man Li just went out and didn't close the door, so she Can hear outside sounds clearly.

"...It's the first time I've come here in the back street, and it looks pretty good."

"Yes, this alley looks small, but it's much better than the street outside... Oh, there are a lot of things over there..."

"...Really, this alley is still connected to the front pavement. If you can store some things here, it will be worth half a warehouse."

Xiu Niang heard the voice getting clearer and closer, and it was quite familiar. This person was on her lips, but she didn't remember it all at once. She didn't know who it was until she heard Chu Ge's words. .

"Hey, Chugo, give me that jar, I'll carry it myself..."

"That's right, Chugo, leave this jar alone..."

"It's okay, Sixth Brother and Sixth Sister-in-law, my wooden workshop is in front of it. You haven't been here before, so I don't know."

"Hey, your sixth brother has never been here before. The last time I came out, it was Xiu Niang who brought me out. Here, the door is open."

After Liu's loud voice finished speaking, Xiu Niang went up to her with a smile, "Oh, I wonder who has such a bright voice, so it's Sister-in-law Liu who is here."

"Hey, isn't there your sixth brother here?" Shi Liu held Xiu Niang's hand with a smile, Xiu Niang turned around and greeted Ji Lao Liu, and the two of them went in with smiles and chatter.

Chu Ge was carrying two jars, and Xiu Niang knew at a guess that they contained pickled vegetable dumpling, which is a local product of Xiayang Village, and she could smell the aroma of the sauce from far away.

This season, Lao Liu was at the end. He was holding a jar of burnt knives and old wine in his arms. The smell was strong enough. He entered the yard and looked at the layout inside. He looked in admiration and looked left and right. watch.

"Hey, why are there so many rooms here? It's quite spacious when they are next to each other... Hey, this house is supported by so many pillars, it looks solid (solid)... Oops, hello..."

His sound was so sudden that Xiuniang Chu Ge and Liu Shi turned their heads in shock, and Chu Ge almost smashed the pickle jar in his hand.

Mrs. Liu frowned, staring at Ji Lao Liu, "Hey, you old bastard, what's your name!"

Ji Laoliu put the burning knife and old wine in his arms on the ground, and stared straight ahead, "Oh my mother, Brother Chu Ge, you still have a well in your shop workshop, alas..."

He talked and walked to the stone well, felt the edge and turned around, and then poked his head into the well, "Oh, brother, your yard is really nice."

Seeing Ji Laoliu's strange look, Xiuniang couldn't help but smile, but it's not surprising that he would find it strange. Xiuniang doesn't know about other places, but in Xiayang Village and Shangyang Village, every household They all have no wells, and they have to travel long distances to get water for drinking. Even the people in the town have only a few yards with wells.

With a stern face, Liu walked over and hit Ji Laoliu, and pulled him back a step, "You old man, carefully pour the halazi into the well!"

Xiu Niang smiled and said, "Sister-in-law Liu, are you going to scold my sixth brother, or are you afraid that my sixth brother will fall into the well?"

Mrs. Liu snorted, and looked at Ji Lao Liu, "It's good if this old mouth falls down."

Ji Laoliu probably didn't listen to the jokes between Liu Shi and Xiu Niang, so he just smiled and said to Chu Ge, "Brother, I've been driving all the way, some of you are thirsty..."

Chu Ge listened, and replied dumbly, "Oh, then Sixth Brother, wait for a while, I will pour some water for you in the stove..."

Ji Lao Liu hurriedly waved his hands, "Hey, no brother, I can just drink this well water."

What else did Chu Ge want to say, Xiu Niang first asked him to put the jar in the stove, and then told him secretly that Ji Lao Liu was out of curiosity and wanted to fetch water for fun, he didn't want to drink water at all .

Hearing what Xiuniang said, Chu Ge looked at Ji Laoliu and saw that he was eager to try, grabbed the hemp rope, hooked it on the wooden barrel with a copper hook, and then put it into the well, but the wooden barrel was in the end. Yes, just floating on the water, no matter how you do it, you can't hit the water.

This season's sixth son didn't look in a hurry, but thought it was very interesting. It really was the first time he fetched water.

Mrs. Liu also knew how careful she was as a man, so she glanced at him and yelled at Xiu Niang, "Chu Ge, don't bother with him, go do your business, I'll go into the room with my sister and have a talk." baby talk."

After hearing what Mrs. Liu said, Xiu Niang chatted with Chu Ge, and went with her to the main room.

"Sister-in-law Liu, why are you free to come to the town with my sixth brother today? Hey, why didn't I see your ox cart when you came here just now?"

"Hey, your sixth brother bought and sold that old cattle to the old Wangtou in the village. His family lacked a plowing animal. Seeing that the price was about the same, your sixth brother sold the old cow."

"Oh, but it's true. Your cattle are also old. It's better to keep the plow. Hey, by the way, Six Sister-in-Law, you guys are here now, what about Hei Wazi?"

"Heiwazi and Daya went back to grandma's house. My brother came over a while ago, so I yelled for him to take Heiwazi and the others back to our village and live at my mother's house for a while. Anyway, my mother will see me too. The sky is talking about Heiwazi."

Mrs. Liu took the tea cup that Xiu Niang handed over, and smiled, "Let's go again, isn't there a festival in two days, I'll hurry up and come to the market with your sixth brother."

Xiu Niang said, "Oh, that's it, then you and Sixth Brother are the only ones left at home now, don't panic."

Mrs. Liu said with a smile, "That's it, without those mischievous ghosts around, I really have a lot of leisure."

Xiu Niang also smiled, and stopped talking when she was done. She wanted to wait for Mrs. Liu to say something, because she knew that Mrs. Liu would not come to the town for no reason. As for myself, I didn’t buy anything, and I even brought some vegetable dumpling old soju for her. The front street and the back alley are not on the way. She also said just now that she came here after sending Heiwazi and the others back to her mother’s house. , Is there something wrong with this?

Mrs. Liu looked at Xiuniang and said nothing, just drank tea, and couldn't say what she was thinking about. She is impatient and doesn't know how to hide it, so she just said it straight.

"Sister, actually this time, I have something to tell you!"

Xiu Niang looked at her, "Oh, what's the matter, sister-in-law?"

Mrs. Liu pursed her lips, paused for a while and said, "Sister, your sixth brother and I want to do business with you!" After she finished speaking, she stared at Xiuniang, waiting for her response .

In other words, Mrs. Liu wants to do business with Xiu Niang, this is not a big deal, but earlier, Xiu Niang asked her to help her in the wooden workshop in her town, and Mrs. Liu knew at that time that Xiu Niang Mother wanted to find someone she could trust to help her keep an eye on the back, so that she could work on the cabinet.

But at that time, she didn't expect that Xiu Niang's business could become big. She relied on making embroidery all day long to support her family. If she promised Xiu Niang to help her, she would quit the embroidery job. In the future, if Xiuniang's business didn't start, then her family would lose their livelihood, so at that time, she would gossiping about going elsewhere.

But this time, she saw that Xiu Niang's business was completed, and she wanted to go back and work with her. She was somewhat embarrassed, and she didn't know whether Xiu Niang would like to bring her into the group.

Xiu Niang looked at Liu Shi looking at herself very anxiously, she thought about it for a while, and she had a plan in her heart, she stood up suddenly, and said with a smile, "Hey, by the way, sister-in-law Liu, why are you free for a while? Let's go grocery shopping."

Liu was stunned for a while, then blinked and looked at her, "Buy, buy vegetables?"

Xiu Niang nodded, "That's right, isn't there going to be a festival in two days, so I need to prepare some things, and my elder brother and aunt have also gone back to the village, and they are about to pick up my parents-in-law for the festival."

She thought about it and said again, "Sister-in-law Liu, you and Brother Six have come to the town, so you shouldn't be returning to the village so early, how about celebrating the holiday with me?"

Liu Shi listened to what Xiu Niang said, nodded numbly, and followed Xiu Niang to the yard.

Before Xiu Niang left the house, she talked to Chu Ge about going shopping with Mrs. Liu, then she took two baskets and left with her.

Liu waited and came to the alley outside the yard. She couldn't help asking, "Hey, sister, what do you think of what I just told you?"

Xiu Niang handed her a basket and smiled, "Sister-in-law, don't we have started to work?"

Mrs. Liu listened for a while, and when Miss Xiuniang said that, she was willing to take her into the group, alas, she laughed out of joy and kept praising Xiuniang.

After hearing this, Xiuniang just smiled and didn't say anything. She thought in her heart that Mrs. Liu and Ji Laoliu came together just right. With them, her difficult mother-in-law would restrain herself...

(End of this chapter)