Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 6

Outside, Du Huanghua was whispering to Du Wenyuan.

"Did you take the time to go to my grandmother's place yesterday?" Du Huanghua said in a reproachful tone.

Du Wenyuan frowned, "How do you know?"

"I see, I sewed your clothes with my own hands!" Du Huanghua became even angrier when she saw that he didn't care much, "You know mother doesn't like us getting close to grandma, last time I just looked at my father's face Those who went to pray for their birthday, now that their birthday has already passed, we should have nothing to do with their family!"

Du Wenyuan was silent for a while before he said, "Then what's on dad's mind? You only care about mother?"

Du Huanghua was taken aback for a moment, her father Du Xian was obviously shaken, and he couldn't come back right now.

Du Wenyuan took the opportunity to say, "You also know that mother will be unhappy, so don't ask her about it, I will pay attention to it myself."

Du Huanghua wanted to say something but she didn't say it after all, she just said, "Don't let your mother down."

This sentence seemed to weigh a thousand catties, Du Wenyuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and said for a while, "I know."

Du Huanghua stopped talking, turned around and went to the yard to wash clothes.

Du Wenyuan stood there for a while, watching Du Huanghua pump up the well water and pour it into a large basin full of clothes. Her slender body was like a thin willow branch by the river. Should it be embroidering flowers, or flying a kite in the yard to play?He lowered his head slowly and walked forward.

Du Xiaoyu had been squatting behind the window, and then quietly stood up.

Seeing that Du Wenyuan was about to leave, she chased after him and shouted, "Second brother!"

When he turned his head, his face was already full of spring breeze, and his smile was as gentle as the fine lines on the surface of a lake.

Du Xiaoyu was stunned for a while, only to realize that Du Wenyuan's eyes are really beautiful, different from them, slanted upwards, long, like a pool of bright water.

"Come on, Second Brother will take you out for a walk." He beckoned.

Du Xiaoyu ran over and said, "Second brother, can you pick off this pagoda tree flower?"

"Sophora japonica?" He looked up at the tall locust tree, then looked down at Du Xiaoyu, a little puzzled.

"That's right, my sister said I'll make Sophora japonica rice for me to eat, so I'll skip this now!" Du Xiaoyu didn't forget to add, "It's best not to climb trees, it will be terrible if mother sees it, second brother is fine , My sister and I will be miserable!"

Du Wenyuan smiled, rather self-deprecating, "What a pity, just say that I can't eat it myself, and if my mother says it, I deserve it."

"That won't work!" Du Xiaoyu took his arm, "It's not good if the second brother is injured, so don't climb trees."

Du Wenyuan just smiled and stretched out his hand to pinch her cheek.

There was something different in his smile, Du Xiaoyu suddenly felt that he was very similar to Du Huanghua, they were both precocious, at an age that should be innocent and romantic, but they had to bear so many burdens, and this burden might be Is it from the Zhao family?Like all mothers who expect their children to become a dragon, they put all their hopes on him.

She felt a little sympathetic to this second elder brother, and also felt that she was lucky to be reborn as a woman, otherwise she would use her talent and learning to take the exam for a ghostly scholar!
"Then think of another way." Du Wenyuan took her hand and walked back.

He found a machete in the house, and told Mrs. Zhao that he would take Du Xiaoyu out to play for a while. Seeing that it was still early and busy applying ointment to Du Xian, Mrs. Zhao agreed, and only told him to come back early.

The two walked all the way to the west, and there was a mountain forest in Qijia Village.

Du Xiaoyu was surprised, what did he bring her here for?
The mountain forest is very quiet, except for the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves, there are only crisp birdsong, which sounds very pleasant.

"Second brother, what are you looking for?" Seeing Du Wenyuan's gaze flickering through the forest, Du Xiaoyu finally couldn't help asking.

"Tall bamboo." Du Wenyuan said concisely.

Oh, it turned out that it was a good idea to use bamboo to knock down the Sophora japonica flower. Du Xiaoyu also helped to find it. After a while, he found a small bamboo forest next to a big rock. The bamboos were all straight and green. It looks good, Du Xiaoyu thought that if a panda found this place, she would be very happy. She would like to eat these tender green bamboo leaves just looking at them.

Du Wenyuan knelt down to chop bamboo vigorously, the sound of "plop plop" frightened countless birds to fly out of the forest.

Du Xiaoyu wandered around while waiting, and when he came back, he picked up several kinds of plants, some of which looked like flowers and some of which looked like ordinary grass, but they all had a special smell.

"Second brother, do you know these?" Seeing that Du Wenyuan is knowledgeable, she wanted to test him.

In the end, he didn't disappoint, and he glanced at it and said, "Honeysuckle, Bupleurum, Radix Ophiopogon."

He actually read medical books, Du Xiaoyu was a little envious of him, it's always good for a person to know a little bit about everything, so he said, "Can you teach me these things in the future?"

"You want to learn to identify herbs?" Du Wenyuan didn't expect her to be so studious.

"Yeah, Daddy's back disease is never going to heal, maybe I can find a good solution!" She sighed and shook her head worriedly, "Sister explained that I don't want Daddy to work, but if my sister is alone, I'm afraid I can't stand it, I still have to get my father's illness cured as soon as possible."

Du Wenyuan pursed his lips, and Du Xiaoyu said angrily again, "I don't think those doctors are capable, otherwise Dad will never look down on him!"

Du Wenyuan was dumbfounded, this girl thought a lot, but she thought of one place with him.

"Okay, I'll teach you some time later." He stood up and held onto one end of the bamboo, "Let's go back and hunt Sophora japonica."

Inexplicably, he calmed down a little. The heavy atmosphere in this family always overwhelmed him sometimes, but it was also joyful to have such a younger sister by his side.

"Call it all down. My sister said that the hotter the weather, the Sophora japonica will all open up, and it won't be very delicious then." She smiled happily.

Du Wenyuan nodded, "Okay, okay."

Du Xiaoyu grinned and followed behind, occasionally stomping on the bamboo with his foot and making mischief, which made Du Wenyuan annoyed and funny.

When the two returned home, Du Wenyuan found a sickle again, and tied a strip of cloth to one end of the bamboo to get all the Sophora japonica flowers. Du Xiaoyu picked them up with a bamboo basket, and felt the tangy and sweet fragrance.

When Du Huanghua saw the Sophora japonica flowers, she found out the corn noodles. Du Xiaoyu was eager to fetch water, and when she was ready to pick them, she began to wash the flowers.

Du Xian stood at the window and looked at the two of them, with a deep smile on his face, "These two children will look better as they grow older, what kind of good family do they have to find in the future!"

Mrs. Zhao burst out laughing, and squeezed his arm, "My children are treasures, but others don't look so good!"

"Hey, it's a pity that the yellow flower is gone." Du Xian sighed suddenly again, "If I hadn't troubled her, she would have married a long time ago, and even got into trouble with that shrew of the Qiu family! I heard that she was scolding the yellow flower in the field just now, and this child suffered."

Zhao's hand loosened, and the bowl of beans almost fell to the ground, "That bitch Qiu is here to curse again?"

"Hey, don't be angry, it's okay, don't rush to quarrel with her, she's tall and big, you can't beat her, I can't help you now that I'm physically weak!" Du Xian regretted himself Leaked, he knows his wife's temper, she usually looks like a bully, if she really bullies her child, he will have to fight everything.

Mrs. Zhao couldn't control it, she was about to rush out in a hurry.

Du Xian hurriedly shouted, "Huang Hua, quickly take your mother, she is going to find Mrs. Qiu!"

Du Huanghua quickly put down the things in her hands and rushed up to grab her mother.

Du Wenyuan didn't know what was going on, so Du Xiaoyu whispered, "I met Qiu Shi in the field before, and she scolded her sister, which was very unpleasant. Fortunately, the cow ran away later."

"What?" Du Wenyuan was also angry, "How unreasonable! How dare you bully my eldest sister?"

Du Huanghua struggled, and shouted at Du Wenyuan, "Second brother, come and stop mother!"

Mrs. Zhao was furious, "Let me go, the bullying is over the top, why stop me? I'm going to tear up that bitch's lips!"

Du Xiaoyu didn't know what to do, judging from Qiu's behavior, if Zhao rushed over, there would probably be violence between the two families, and she didn't know how many helpers there were in Qiu's family!

At this moment, she heard a laugh from outside, and when she looked back, it was Mrs. Wu who came from next door, just in time to stop the chaos that was about to happen.

"Oh, sister Zhao, Huang Hua, you'll be happy to hear that!" Aunt Wu covered her mouth and smiled, but her eyes widened in surprise when she saw the three of them entangled together, "What are you doing?"

Mrs. Zhao smiled awkwardly, quickly withdrew her hand, and patted the crumpled clothes again, "It's nothing, you said you were happy just now?"

"That's right, the Qiu family's cattle went crazy today and trampled their fields into a mess. The most coincidental thing is, who do you think is in it? It happened to be Mrs. Hong, and the two of them were rolling all over the field. Oh, are you I didn’t see it, I’m dying of laughter, Mrs. Qiu’s mouth was full of cow dung, Mrs. Hong was not much better, she was trampled by a cow and broke a bone.” Aunt Wu became more and more excited as she spoke, “It’s really retribution, we can Are you not happy, I will come to tell you immediately, but I have vented my anger!"

Du Xiaoyu immediately picked up, "Aunt Wu, our family just happens to be making Sophora japonica rice, you can stay and eat together later!"

"Then I came here by coincidence." Aunt Wu was also happy, and she went up and pulled Mrs. Zhao, "Come on, let's go in and talk, let me tell you..."

When Mrs. Zhao heard the news, of course she lost most of her anger and smiled. The two usually like to get together, but this time when Aunt Wu came to visit, they had to talk for a long time.

The others breathed a sigh of relief, Du Wenyuan ran to Du Huanghua and whispered, "Maybe you will be blamed for Qiu's big loss this time, I'll ask my master for a few days off tomorrow, anyway, Dad I have to rest too, and I will help with the work in the field."

Du Huanghua didn't appreciate it, and reprimanded, "That's okay, you go to the master's place carefully, I can do the things in the field by myself, don't delay studying, mother will not agree!"

Du Wenyuan stopped talking. Over the years, every time he wanted to do something for the family, he was not rejected once. Maybe he should have gotten used to it...

(End of this chapter)