Notes on Leisurely Living in the Farm

Chapter 47

"Sister, sister, I want to buy candied haws."

Following the soft child's voice, a flying shadow knocked open the door, skillfully crossed the threshold, and grabbed the figure of the busy woman in light yellow.

The woman turned her head, put down the dough in her hand, took out a handkerchief from her waist and Tilian's pouch to wipe off the sweat on her forehead, and looked at her younger brother with a smile.

"Changsheng has finished his studies today?"

"Well, I can read five big characters, and three of them are my sister's names."

Yiyou took out five copper coins from her purse: "Go, remember to buy one more and send it to Mu Yu."

"Then I'll buy an apple and a hawthorn, and we'll eat them in exchange."

"It's all up to you."

Please take a picture of Changsheng's back. She also walked out of the kitchen and sat on the railing of the corridor in the courtyard.The courtyard house is not big, with a radius of only fifty feet, but it has all internal organs.It was already very elegant when it moved in. After Yiyou moved in, he planted a few ivy plants in the corner and planted a cluster of roses under the window sill. After a summer, the courtyard is now full of vitality.

Looking at the toddler who ran out of the door, he has grown a lot taller than three months ago, and the trousers that are suitable for spring are nine points at this moment.

It's time to make a new pair of trousers for him. When the mother comes back, they will go to the silk and satin shop to see if there is any good quality and cheap floral cloth.

With her chin resting, a gust of wind blows, bringing the fragrance of flowers, her eyes gradually blurred.All that happened in the past three months was really like a dream to her.

Since that day, she was removed from the clan, and then she invited Mama Wu to the Shen family.

The old lady wanted to drive them out directly, but their mother and daughter were not vegetarians. With just a few glances, Shen Fuxiang reluctantly agreed. Before they found a place to stay, they were allowed to live in the house.

Naturally, Yiyou was not polite, at the moment she used real kung fu, coaxed and lied, and actually convinced Wu's mother's words.

When she brought back the cold cakes, Mrs. Xian Cheng took the lead in letting go, and stopped pursuing Si Ya's mistakes.When the news came out, everyone in the Shen family in Yunlin Village breathed a sigh of relief, and their attitude towards their mother and daughter improved.

Once freed from the shackles, Yiyou is suddenly enlightened.Strike while the iron is hot, she asks her tribe to repair an earthen wall beside the white stone pile.Manpower is worthless, but with a few meals of steamed stuffed buns, the wall is built extremely strong.

In the first few days, Shen Fuhai and the old lady also wanted to come and make trouble, but when Mu Ran arrived, a yamen servant from Dama Jindao immediately beat the mother and son back to their original forms.After that, she was not a vegetarian either, so she cut white cloth that day, hurriedly made two strings of yuan handkerchiefs, and then dripped chicken blood on them.

It was more than one month, and on the day when the wall was built, it happened that the peony cake she made for the county magistrate's wife was beginning to bear fruit. The house in the county seat was acquired. Although there was no lease for the time being, it was a place to live and live.

On the day she packed up her clothes and left the village, she got up early and hung strings of yuan handkerchiefs on the lanterns and stone lions in front of the Shen family's ancestral house with thin bamboo poles.When the ox cart left the village, people came and went passing by the Shen family's ancestral house, and the rumors that had been subdued for a month immediately caused an uproar.

Thinking of this, Yiyou couldn't help showing a smug smile.People in Yunlin Village have nothing to do when they have nothing to do, what they love most is this kind of gossip. No one started it before, and most of them hid in their rooms in the dead of night as jokes.

Now that she puts it on the bright side, it won't blow the pot.

"What is Er Ya thinking?"

Li Shi's voice woke her up. It has been more than two months since she moved here. Although she worked hard steaming buns every day, she didn't have to go to the field to be exposed to the wind and sun. Her skin has turned white a lot.Being smoky all day long, the dry and chapped skin became tender.

A woman in her thirties now looks like a young woman in her early twenties.

"I'm thinking about my aunt and uncle."

"My child, it's fortunate that we ran fast that day, otherwise your second uncle over there... Shen Fuhai and the others are tall and big, if they stop us in the village and beat us up, what should you do?"

"Earlier, I bought all kinds of knives and hid them all at hand that day. If he dares, I will make him unable to take care of himself."

"Who did you learn these words from? It's not at all like Wenwen Jingjing, a girl from other families."

Yiyou stood up and helped her mother unload the bamboo basket.After all, women are not as strong as men. After coming to the county seat, she replaced the bamboo baskets that were half a person's height with small cages. A cage can hold thirty steamed buns, which is relatively easy.

"Now I'm the pillar of our family, I can't bear it, and I haven't been eaten by others until there are no bones left."

Hearing this for the first time, Mrs. Li may still be sad.But in the past two months, instead of seeing her daughter sad, she enjoyed it, so she got used to it.

"Master, are we ready to pack the buns?"

"It's been done long ago, and I'll put it in the cage at night when it's fermented. I'm waiting for my mother to come back, and I want to cut a few feet of cloth and change Changsheng's clothes."

Mrs. Li stood the cart by the wall. Although the cart looked heavy, there were no cattle a few years ago. Before spring plowing, she and Shen Fuxiang plowed the land with a plow made of wood and iron. The man was much heavier than this. .So leaving Shen Fuxiang, she didn't feel uncomfortable at all.

Selling steamed stuffed buns every day for three months, and saving silver ingots at home, the cut flower cloth that used to hurt her is no pressure to her now.

Isn't working hard to make money just to live a good life, the children don't have a father, and they can't be wronged elsewhere.

The clothes the two women wore were newly made. Without the monthly money given to the old lady and various deductions from the clan, Li Yunniang found that her life changed from being poor and eating porridge to eating meat every day. greasy.

Naturally, making clothes is indispensable. Taking advantage of the hot weather, she cut off various colored cloths, and the mother and daughter each made five bodies.Seeing her daughter's handsome appearance in new clothes, she really wanted to cut off all kinds of cloth from the cloth shop and pile them all on her body.

Yiyou was keenly aware of the enthusiasm in her mother's eyes. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have imagined that her mother, who was cowardly until death in her previous life, would have such a pungent temper.

The two women and children opened such a prosperous steamed stuffed bun stall, and there are many people who covet it. Although there is the banner of the county magistrate's wife, and Mu Ran's help to solve some difficulties when he patrols the venue, troubles will always be blocked. Can't stop.

The last time there was a trader looking for faults, at the time of desperation, it was the mother who picked up the kitchen knife and slashed at it without hesitation.The demeanor of gods blocking gods and Buddhas blocking Buddhas immediately shocked everyone in Jishang.Since then, wherever the steamed stuffed bun stall has been, there has been no Xiao Xiao dare to make trouble again.

At this moment, she shivered, and instantly changed to flattery: "Mother, my daughter has enough clothes."

Mrs. Li picked up the purse and held it in the palm of her hand, and squinted at her: "You have a good idea, there is no spare money at home to buy clothes for you."

"That's right, we orphans and widows have to live frugally."

The orphan and widow touched Li Shi's nerves. She glanced at the street, and she took Yiyou's arm: "Come on, let's go to the silver building to see if there are any new jewelry."

Yiyou was helpless, but when she thought of real gold and silver, even if she made jewelry, it could be used as money, she immediately felt relieved.

The mother and daughter turned in, and the shopkeeper saw that they were wearing new and exquisite clothes, although they were not luxurious, so he hurriedly sent a servant to greet them.

"Two, what do you want?"

"Accompany my mother to look at the jewelry, is there anything new?"

Mrs. Li also said: "Jiji girl jewelry, here are some nicer ones."

Jiji Yiyou thought about it, she has been busy with steamed stuffed buns and snacks for the past few months.Because she knew in her heart that a variety of snacks can be used to get bargaining chips from the county magistrate's wife, and selling buns can earn money for the whole family.

If you grasp the two, you will have status and money, even if they are orphans and widows, no one can bully them.To a certain extent, she can even get back the anger my mother suffered in the Shen family and Li family in those years.

Putting all her energy into it, the family of three became stronger and stronger in the endless toil, and she also experienced a satisfaction that she had never seen in her previous life.Such a virtuous circle, she actually completely forgot about Jiji.

"Mother, with a daughter like this, do you still need the gift of Jiji?"

Mrs. Li understands what her daughter means. The head of the family is different from the girl in the boudoir.In Dayue, most of the grand ceremonies of Jiji are to promote the virtues of the daughter's family so that she can find a good family in Biyu Nianhua.

"It's only once in my daughter's life. Mother can't wrong you."

The servants brought all kinds of pearls and hairpins, there must not be many wealthy people in the county, so although these jewelry are exquisite, the materials used are not too expensive.

Seeing that Li Shi is determined, Yiyou is no match for her in the end.Taking out what she saw and heard in her previous life, she wanted to try her best to choose a good-quality, cheap and generous one.

Playing with the pearl hairpin, she finally chose a silver hairpin, made of silver into a three-inch length, with a piece of jasper the size of a thumbnail supporting a peony flower core at the end.

The silver is white and gentle, taking advantage of the emerald jade, it has a demure beauty.Compared with the step-by-step jade hairpin she had in her previous life, it is naturally not on the table, but it is small and exquisite.

"My mother also likes this one, so let it go."

Mrs. Li picked it up and asked about the price. Just as she was about to untie her purse, a shrill female voice came from beside her: "This is not the fourth sister-in-law. She is squandering the hard-earned money of the fourth brother here. As a child, she doesn't want the old parents in the girl's family." toil."

Yiyou turned her head, but didn't recognize her for a while.

Mrs. Li paid the bill calmly, handed the silver hairpin to her daughter, and said back, "Who am I, it turns out to be Shen Fu'ai."

her aunt?Yiyou looked again, when she left Yunlin Village, she had seen Shen Fu'ai once.Pampered and unrestrained for many years, this aunt is bloated, roughly equal to the sum of her and Li's combined.

But it's only been two months since I saw her, and she has lost so much weight.Although it is still bloated, it is only half as big as Li's.

I couldn't figure out the situation just now, but now I know who's coming, Yiyou will naturally not be polite anymore.

She took out the handkerchief in her bosom, the one she brought today was the red plum embroidered by Mrs. Li herself.Grabbing her foot, she slapped it towards Shen Fu'ai's face.

"Madam Cheng, or Miss Shen, do you know this thing?"

Shen Fu'ai already had ghosts in her heart, but at this moment she was even more shocked and angry.The Yuanpa had clearly been burned by mother, so why did she still have it in her hand?Thinking of the cold reception she received at Cheng's family these days, she couldn't help but get angry.

"You son of a bitch, if I don't kill you today, my surname will not be Shen."

Yiyou didn't get angry with her either, seeing her pounce on her, she pulled Li Shi to the side.Shen Fuai's plump body rushed straight to a plate of silver hairpins of various colors in front of him.

(End of this chapter)