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Chapter 41 Weaving Meadows
After the meal, the two rested for a while. Now the room was leaking everywhere, and the main room was also leaking. The two of them had nowhere to go, so they sat quietly in the kitchen, warming themselves by the fire.

"I'll get some meadows, and then I don't need my father-in-law and the others to repair the house." Zhang Zhen'an said and stood up.

An Xiu'er stopped him, and said: "You don't know how to make that meadow, let's wait until my father and the others come. They should come over in the afternoon."

Zhang Zhen'an's face was a bit tangled, he really didn't want to ask his father-in-law's family to help even such a trivial matter, and more importantly, he didn't want them to see his family's dilapidation.

Scratching his ears, he sat down, but he couldn't sit still, so he discussed with An Xiuer: "Why don't I go and hire Li Tiegen, he should be able to repair the house, I'd rather spend some money to hire him, Your father is getting old, it's not good to let him come."

"It's good to invite Li Tiegen to come. As long as you have money, there are a lot of people in the village who are willing to come and help. The only question is, do you still have money?"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhenan stopped talking. Buying the silver hairpin for An Xiuer had already used up his only little savings. Although he had made some money from fishing these past few days, other than buying some necessities of life , Everything else was changed to wine.

At this moment, when she heard An Xiuer mention it, she couldn't refute it for a moment, she only blushed when she said it, but fortunately his face was dark, this red face, An Xiuer didn't notice it, she just felt that his face was extremely dark.

An Xiu'er was afraid that he would get angry, so she didn't say much about it, she just said softly: "Anyway, my father is your father, and we are all a family, so don't mind if it has any relationship."

Zhang Zhenan still pursed his lips and remained silent.

An Xiu'er then said, "Don't be angry, I'll help you plant the fields in a few days, and help harvest the rice in the summer. Even if you don't let my father and the others come to help now, they won't be ashamed to ask you to help." Well, you should do me a favor."

Zhang Zhen'an understood that she was helping him to find a reason, but he felt much more comfortable being comforted by her. He only thought that he must help An's family with a lot of work, and he still had to save some money, otherwise at this critical moment, he would really Is helpless.

"I'm not angry, I just hate myself for being helpless." Zhang Zhen'an said something, An Xiu'er was about to say something more, but there was a sound outside the door, and when An Xiu'er went out, Mrs. Liang, Father An and others had already stood In the hall.

Liang looked at the entire leaky main room and the mud that was dripping from the rain, and felt startled and bitter for a moment, he just beat his chest and said, "This room is leaking like this, how can people live in this..."

An Xiu'er went out and happened to hear her say this, she just pretended not to hear, stepped forward and said softly: "Father, mother, second brother and second sister-in-law are here, it's really troublesome."

"You child, the house is leaking like this. Why didn't you say it earlier? Repair the house earlier, and it won't be like this now." Seeing An Xiu'er, Liang Shi turned around with a look of reproach on her face , eyes full of worry.

"We didn't know earlier." An Xiu'er walked to Liang's side, and said, "A few days ago, my husband said that he wanted to repair the house, who would have expected that the rain would fall as soon as he spoke."

"Oh, it's because you kids are inexperienced." Shi Liang sighed, looked at An Xiu'er, and said, "Is this the main room that leaks?"

An Xiu'er shook her head, "It's more serious in the bedroom than this."

"Then take us to have a look. The sooner we fix it, the parents can feel at ease sooner. This is an earthen house. It's been soaked in the rain for a long time, but it's not good." Liang said and was about to go out.

An Xiu'er patted the little heads of the older girls who followed, it seemed that the An family took her affairs to heart, but the whole family was dispatched for her house.

"Second brother and second sister-in-law, take your children and find a place to sit down first, and I'll take your mother to have a look." An Xiuer asked Zhang Zhenan to accompany An Tiemu, Dong Shi and others to sit here, while she brought the children with her. Mrs. Liang and Father An went to see the bedroom.

Zhang Zhenan asked the two to sit down, made tea for them, said "please drink tea", and then sat there without saying a word, An Tiemu and Dong were not used to it either. With his temperament, the couple looked at each other and only looked at each other.

Big Ya and Er Ya couldn't bear the appearance of their uncle, so they said hello to Mrs. Dong, then hurried out, as if fleeing to find An Xiu'er.

An Xiu'er brought Father An and Mrs. Liang to her bedroom. When the door of this bedroom was opened, the muddy water stains all over the room were almost like mud at the bottom of a pond. The whole room was in a state of embarrassment. Seeing this situation, the wrinkles on the originally grooved face became deeper, and the face looked even more distressed.

"You child, when you come home on weekdays, you always say that everything is fine at home, but mother doesn't know that you are living like this." When Liang saw this house, he put his arms around An Xiu'er and cried out heartily. start to cry.

"Mother, my life is really good. It's raining, otherwise the house is very clean." An Xiuer patted Liang's back and said, "Didn't you come to the house last time? Not like this."

"Alas..." Knowing that An Xiu'er always said good things, she could only helplessly shake her head and said, "You child, I really wronged you."

Father An also let out a sigh, and felt that he had delayed An Xiu'er, otherwise, she would not have fallen into the current situation.

"Father, mother, don't act like this. My daughter knows her life well. I am happy." An Xiu'er showed a bright smile at the two old people. In the eyes of the old man, he only felt that she was forcing a smile, and his heart ached even more.

Fortunately, at this time, two people ran in, Old Man An and Mrs. Liang put away their sad expressions, and An Xiu'er quickly took the opportunity to say:
"Okay, parents, it's useless to talk about it. Although my current life is a bit poor, my husband can make money. I am also a craftsman. My life will get better and better in the future. You should hurry up and show me Look at this house, so I can help repair the house."

"That's the truth." The mentality of marrying a chicken and marrying a dog with a dog is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the countryside. The raw rice has been cooked and the daughter is married. It is useless to think about it. The two old people understood this truth and sighed. Mrs. Liang led the two children out of the house, while Father An focused on looking at the house.

The more he looked, the more sad his expression became. After the last lap, he said to An Xiu'er: "This straw is already from last year, and many of them are rotten. They should be replaced when spring begins, otherwise , even if the hole is filled this time, if it rains next time, it will still leak."

"But, repairing the whole house, won't it be a waste of time?" An Xiu'er looked at Father An, with some hesitation in her heart, and said, "Besides, our family doesn't have so much straw."

"That's not a problem. Anyway, your house is not big, so it doesn't take much time. Weave the meadow today and build it up tomorrow. If there is no straw, our house is full, so you don't have to worry." Dad said and walked out of the house.

He is not a mother-in-law either, Dang even, led by An Xiuer, went to the kitchen in the backyard, ready to start weaving meadow seeds.

"Tie Mu, Xiu'er's house may need to be repaired, you and Han Mei go to the house to pick some straw." Father An ordered, and then said to Zhang Zhen'an: "Master, do you have any bamboo in your house?"

"There are some." Zhang Zhenan pointed to the bamboos in the courtyard and said, "Are these enough?"

"Yes." Father An nodded, put on a bamboo hat and rushed into the rain, dragging a bamboo over.

This bamboo was left over from the last time I made a fence. Otherwise, how could there be such a thing at home? Zhang Zhenan saw Father An dragging the bamboo and was still a little trembling. He wanted to go over to help, but Father An Pushing it away with one hand, he instructed to do other work: "Go and bring a stool over here."

Zhang Zhen'an strode into the main room and moved a stool. Father An put the bamboo on the stool and chopped it twice. Divide into bamboo strips.

Although he is old and has little strength, he divided the bamboo sticks very evenly, which is worthy of the old-fashioned way of working.

He removed the knots on the bamboo stick with a click, and made it finer. Father An's eyes were cloudy, and his eyesight was not very good. He took the bamboo stick and cut it several times. An empty space made An Xiu'er and the others look on with great concern.

"What are you looking at here, why don't you go weave straw rope with your mother?" Father An became a little annoyed when he failed to align several times, and drove away all the people who were in the way with a wave of his hand. Then I picked up the bamboo strips again.

Coincidentally, there seemed to be no distracting objects, and what he did this time was exceptionally smooth, separating the bamboo strips with ease.

He removed the thick bamboo flesh inside, leaving only a layer of bamboo skin on the outside, and then divided the bamboo skin into thin strips. The bamboo skin is very flexible and is just right for weaving things.

With these few bamboo sticks, he didn't do anything else. He just found a place to sit down and started weaving the meadow, while Mrs. Liang helped him.

Although his speed wasn't fast, he was very organized. An Xiu'er and Zhang Zhen'an couldn't do it at all, so they could only watch eagerly from the sidelines.

When Father An finished weaving the first meadow, and then weaving the second, Zhang Zhenan also sat down and followed suit. He learned things very quickly, but he just watched it once, and now he followed suit. Kind of.

(End of this chapter)