Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 77
After the banquet was over, Du Xiaoyu went to Mrs. Zhao's side to remind her, but she saw that she was talking to Mrs. Wu.The expressions of the two were very strange, the former was looking forward to it, while the latter was a little awkward, she slowed down and stood behind them.

Only Zhao said, "Oh, it turns out that he is your wife's elder brother. He is a good looking person."

Du Xiaoyu turned to the right side, poked his head out, and just saw a young man with his sleeves rolled up to clean up the leftovers on the table. He was tall and handsome, looking at the young man who was about seventeen or eighteen For his age, his temperament is quite calm.

Zhao asked again, "Not married yet? What are you doing?"

Aunt Wu didn't answer right away, she hesitated for a while before saying, "I'm not married, but this child is very good regardless of his appearance and character, and his hands are also dexterous, and he loves his sister very much. He looks after it."

Mrs. Zhao was stunned, "The paper horse shop? Could it be the Wang family's paper horse?"

"That's right, the Wang family didn't plan to do it. They thought that the brothers and sisters could get closer in one county, so they put it all together. Anyway, he learned from a master since he was a child. The village is very popular with the villagers.”

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhao stopped talking and only sighed slightly.

Aunt Wu showed some regret, but it was already expected by her. Anyone who fell in love with this boy would like it, but as long as she asked about his business, he would change his attitude.This child is completely delayed by his own craftsmanship. No matter how good his conduct is, what good is it? After all, making these things is to earn dead money, and others think it is unlucky.

Mrs. Zhao finally took a fancy to one but was hit. At this time, she was not in the mood and turned around to help clean up together.

Fortunately, they couldn't match up, so Du Xiaoyu was relieved. If this young man suits Zhao's taste in everything, why don't we ask Aunt Wu to help arrange this matter?But over there, it will take more than two years for Du Huanghua to become a teacher. Zhao's family knows that this ruined a good marriage. I don't know how to be angry, and her end will be even more miserable.

"Auntie, I have something to tell you." Du Xiaoyu called Aunt Wu to stop. The Qin family knew about the three-year contract, but Aunt Wu didn't know it yet. It's best to let her find a way to delay it.

Aunt Wu didn't know what she was going to do, so she followed her to the backyard behind a few bales of haystacks with an anxious face.

Du Xiaoyu just spoke in detail.

Aunt Wu couldn't help but blame a few words after hearing this. The village attaches great importance to the age of girls. Generally, when they are 15 years old, they should be laughed at if no one says they are married. A good family can't have nineteen?No wonder he didn't dare to tell Mrs. Zhao.

Du Xiaoyu only kept saying good things, and said how her eldest sister loved embroidery, and even brought Qin Shi in, saying that she also supported it.Since Qin's wholeheartedly wanted to take advantage of it in the future, she had to be used as a backstop no matter what.

Sure enough, Mrs. Wu turned all the fire on Mrs. Qin, scolded a few times, saying that Du Xiaoyu is a child, and Mrs. Qin is not sensible enough to meddle in it. Fortunately, Mrs. Qin is not here, otherwise Du Xiaoyu would have Get poked a few holes by her gaze.

"Forget it, since the matter is already like this, I'll talk to your mother, and find her an in-law later."

"Thank you, ma'am." Du Xiaoyu saluted respectfully, "But my elder sister has a very high level of comprehension in learning this. If she learns it early, Mrs. Wan will not insist on keeping the contract."

"You ghost girl, now I'm included in the count." Aunt Wu nodded her head, "If your mother finds out, I don't know how annoyed she will be, but Sister Qin has a thick skin, and it's okay to push her out when the time comes , at worst, let your mother beat you up, and she'll be able to ask for forgiveness anyway." He laughed straight.

Qin Shi is indeed the best candidate to take the blame, Du Xiaoyu also covered her mouth and laughed, even Aunt Wu said so, if Zhao Shi finds out in the future, she will have to drag her out, if you want to make money, you have to pay a price!
After discussing the matter, the two went their separate ways.

The next morning blacksmith Yu brought over four large iron cages, and Du Xiaoyu ordered a total of two batches of iron cages from him. It's a tael of silver.

Mrs. Zhao felt that the money was extravagant, but the money was earned by the youngest daughter herself, so she had nothing to say.

After Du Xiaoyu paid the balance and sent Blacksmith Yu away, he turned around and lined up the iron cages, each rabbit occupying a cage.Now all eight of them have grown up, including three males and five females, it's time to breed them.

She took out the male rabbit she bought earlier and put it into the cage of a later female rabbit, but she didn't know if the male rabbit was suffocated. As soon as she entered, there was a violent storm, chasing and crushing the female rabbit. Chi Chi screamed.

Rabbits generally don't make a sound unless they are extremely frightened. Du Xiaoyu is also terrified when he looks at it, so he hurriedly got the male rabbit out again, and almost got bitten by it.

No wonder it is said that rabbits bite people when they are in a hurry. This is absolutely true. The male rabbit stared at Du Xiaoyu who ruined his good deeds in the cage.

Du Xiaoyu scratched his head, and stared at the male rabbit, his heart was not gentle at all, he said that he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, it would kill the female rabbit if he was so anxious, he deserved it!

When Du Wenyuan came back from Lin Song's place, he saw a man and a rabbit confronting each other, and asked with a smile, "What are you thinking?"

"No, I didn't think about anything." Du Xiaoyu stuttered a little. Although she was not a child at heart, it was absolutely impossible for her to talk to a boy face to face about the mating of rabbits, so she turned around and went to pick up the flowers in the garden. hastily.

Du Wenyuan looked at the rabbits, "They've grown so big, what are you going to do with them? I heard that if there are more than ten rabbits in a litter, how many female rabbits do you have here? I'm afraid there will be dozens of little rabbits by then?"

"Well, let's raise it first." Du Xiaoyu was vague, she was considering several directions, and she was not sure which way to go in the future, it's still too early to talk about it now.

Seeing her like this, Du Wenyuan didn't ask any more questions, and said, "Are there any agricultural books that I borrowed last time that I didn't understand?"

"I can read more characters now, and I can understand most of them." Du Xiaoyu trimmed the dead branches of honeysuckle, suddenly remembered something, raised his head and said, "The Nongsang series asked me to finish reading, so it's not the whole book. The second brother took it back this time and helped me return it, and then borrow the next few volumes, okay?"

Du Wenyuan was a little disappointed, "Can I say it's not good?" Then he went into the room.

The whole family went to Bai's house at noon, Cui Shi really invited Zhang Shi, and their eldest son Liu Fu, they seemed to be familiar with each other, Zhang Shi and Cui Shi didn't know how much they talked, and the two burst out from time to time. laughter.

Bai Lianhua is dressed up very beautifully today, with a moon-white double-breasted jacket embroidered with lotus flowers, underneath is a water-green four-panel cotton skirt, with a five-color silk ribbon tied around the waist, and two pearl flowers pinned to her hair, looking elegant and refined.

That Liu Fu was over 20 years old, and he couldn't help staring at her.

Zhao's eyes were also brightened, she had seen this white lotus several times before, but she didn't expect it to be so different after dressing up, so she couldn't help boasting a few words.

This time, Bai Lianhua was not as heartless as usual, but took the initiative to bring tea and water to Mrs. Zhao, but she was not overly attentive, everything was just right.

I'm afraid there is some bad idea. Du Xiaoyu knows her well, so she didn't show a good face behind her back.

The table had been set up long ago, and Cui invited them to the table after exchanging greetings, and mentioned that Zhang's eldest son introduced work to Bai Shiying's cousin in the county, and expressed his gratitude for the meal, and then talked about the sale of fields. .

Mrs. Zhang is a straightforward person. She said that seeing Mrs. Zhao also like her, she was willing to sell five mu of land immediately, and the price was fair, five taels of silver per mu.

Mrs. Zhao didn't expect it to go so smoothly, and she was so happy that she didn't know what to say. After buying this field, the ten acres of fertile land here will be connected to one place, and the ten acres of land reclamation over there will also be opened together. It is very convenient. It is completely enough to rely on these lands, and the silver can be saved well.

The atmosphere on the table is cheerful, but Du Xiaoyu is not very cheerful, but it is not easy to show it, so he just lowers his head to pick up something to eat, there are really a lot of fish, braised in soy sauce and steamed, but there is only this fried fish fillet with garlic I like it more, it is very tender and smooth, and there are few thorns.

Do you know what kind of fish it is made of?Maybe the river water has not been polluted, the meat quality is much more delicious than later generations, and the way to eat fish fillets reminds her of the pickled fish that she often ordered in restaurants before, which is also the only fish-related dish she likes to eat.

"It seems that Xiaoyu likes this very much." Du Xian noticed it, patted her on the head affectionately and smiled, "If you want to eat it, why don't you catch two in the river with your Uncle Bai?"

"Father, what kind of fish is this?" Du Xiaoyu asked without answering. There are a lot of sauerkraut at home, so it's easy to cook sauerkraut fish, but are they used to eating chili?Chili peppers seem to be the first to be grown in this era. Few people eat them, but Chinese prickly ash does exist, but what’s so good if it’s not spicy? Although she’s from the south, she loves spicy food in addition to sweets.

"This is called grass carp, and the big one weighs more than ten catties." It was Bai Shiying who returned, "Brother Du thinks it's best to go, and the recent season is also suitable. If the fish are full, they will spend the winter. If you fish for an afternoon, you will have a big day." Bucket." Looking at Du Wenyuan again, "Fishing requires patience, young people should learn to be calm, just like you study, you have to calm down."

He talked eloquently, so it can be seen that he really likes fishing, and Du Xiaoyu became interested, "Uncle Bai, is there a way to catch crabs?" She is not particularly interested in fish, and this season is just the transition between autumn and winter At that time, the crab yellow paste was plump, and the saliva would flow down just thinking about it, but crab disasters don’t happen every year, it should be said that they happen very rarely, so if you want to eat it, you have to catch it yourself.

Bai Shiying was taken aback, and said, "What's delicious about that, it's very troublesome!"

Eating fish is even more troublesome, okay, Du Xiaoyu thought, it's true that different ways do not conspire with each other!
(End of this chapter)