Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 89
After digging for a month, the pond finally took shape. It was two feet wide and four feet long, equivalent to half an acre of land, not too big, because Du Xiaoyu didn't think about using it to make money, but just wanted to enrich his own dining table.

However, water cannot be injected into it yet. Zhong Daquan said that fertilizer should be applied first. The pond is like fertile land, and the bottom mud needs to be raised with basal fertilizer. The second step is to fully disinfect and poison before raising things. In the pond, fortunately, this thing has been around for a long time, so it is easy to buy.

After taking care of all this, you can raise fish in it in another seven or eight days. When the time comes, go to the river to sink some fishing nets, and there will always be no shortage of fish.

During this period, all the cold melons have been transplanted to the field, and one or two leaves have emerged. It takes a lot of time to pull out weeds every day and water them.

Before I knew it, it was mid-February, and it was time for Du Wenyuan to rest again, and he returned home in the evening.

Seeing Du Xiaoyu adding grass to the cow, he walked to the side and pointed to the wooden post on the cowshed, "Has it been measured? How much did it grow last year?"

"Oh, I forgot!" Du Xiaoyu yelled, and quickly went to stand in front of the wooden post, "Second brother, measure it for me." She was so busy that she completely forgot about measuring her height.

Du Wenyuan picked up a straw and stuck it to the top of her head to measure it carefully, nodded and said, "It's quite a bit longer, look, it's two inches long."

Two inches is equivalent to more than six centimeters. Du Xiaoyu gestured that it was quite long. At her age, it is not bad to grow so much. She immediately became happy, "It seems that working is beneficial, and I will eat well in the second half of the year." , it grows very fast!"

"It will grow faster later, and I only started to grow taller after I was ten years old."

The two of them were talking, when three people walked into the courtyard, all of them men, two of whom Du Xiaoyu knew, one was Du Tang, the other was Du Yi, and the other was an old man who looked about the same. Fifty, with gray hair, a little hunchback, and a square face.

"Stinky brat, damn girl, why don't you come up to see your uncle when you see him?" Du Tang shouted.

Du Xiaoyu's eyes widened in shock, this man was their uncle, wouldn't he mean her father's uncle?What is he doing here?

Du Wenyuan pulled her, stepped forward and bowed to salute, "I've seen my uncle."

Uncle called Du Shan, looked him up and down, stretched out his hands to touch two beards that were neither long nor short, "I haven't seen you for a few years, but it's even more outstanding, no wonder your mother-in-law is reluctant." He looked around a long row of earthen houses, "I really wronged you, live here all these years."

"It's not a grievance!" Mrs. Zhao had already come out when she heard the voice, followed by Du Xian.

"Ah, why is Uncle here? Please come in and sit down." Du Xian hurried up to support him, "Didn't Uncle go to Zhongshun Village to live with his daughter? Why are you here today?"

Before Du Shan could answer, Du Tang chuckled, "Uncle didn't come here for you, you should know, if you are smarter, you should know what to do!"

Du Shan turned his head and knocked Du Tang, "You kid still likes to bully your elder brother, you should restrain yourself in front of me! What did your mother say? I want you brothers to be kind and to help each other when you live together. Forgot all?"

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Zhao's face was as dark as black iron, and she said coldly, "Uncle, why did you live together? We were kicked out of Du's house a long time ago. Don't you always forget?"

But Du Shan didn't look at her, and said, "Of course I know, I've persuaded my sister-in-law several times, and I visited her a few years ago, but everyone knows the reason why my sister-in-law is so stubborn. Sister-in-law. But after all these years, sister-in-law can see right from wrong." He looked at Du Xian, "Your mother still loves you, otherwise she wouldn't ask me to persuade you to go back. After all, mother and son , if your mother was really heartless, you would have been removed from the genealogy long ago, wouldn't you?"

Zhao's face turned pale with anger, "Why do you know so well? Could it be that uncle doesn't know the truth of the matter until now?"

Du Xian said anxiously, "Uncle, why are you mentioning these things? I, I won't go back, so you can go and tell mother that our family is living well, so there is no need to go back."

Du Xiaoyu found it very strange, it was clearly talking about the reason why she was kicked out that year, but her father didn't seem to want to mention it.

Du Shan sighed, "Xian'er, you have been filial since you were young, and you are also the hardest working member of your family. How come you have become so ruthless now! Your mother is sick like this, shouldn't you be with me as a son? Your mother's beloved grandson is now a scholar, but those who study are filial, and now he does not honor his elders just like you, so even if he is admitted to Juren or even Jinshi in the future, can he be a good official with this character? "

Mrs. Zhao bit her lips tightly, but didn't say a word. Du Shan obviously didn't take her seriously, and he only spoke to Du Xian with contempt.

Du Xiaoyu exclaimed, this uncle is such a powerful character!The ancients valued filial piety the most. If there is a bad reputation for disloyalty and unfilial piety, it will have a great impact on this person's life.

Du Xian naturally heard it, and said loudly, "I'm not filial, what's the matter with Guan Wenyuan?"

"Why don't you close it, he is also a member of the Du family!"

"Hey, uncle, as I said earlier, their family has such a stubborn temper, no matter how much you persuade them, it's useless." Du Tang said, "Let's go, why waste saliva for nothing!"

Du Yi remained silent from the beginning to the end, and did not express his attitude towards this matter.

Du Shan glared at Du Tang, "Shut up, your mother called you here to help persuade you, it's good for you, you can only say these words!"

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything." Although Du Tang said so, his eyes were fixed on Du Xian.

Du Shan said slowly, "Xian'er, have you made up your mind? You are all members of the Du family, you can't live outside forever, let others tell you what to do, why don't you take this opportunity to reconcile with your mother today, How about it? It’s not in vain for me to take a trip, hey, I’m getting old, I can’t let my eldest brother’s family look like this before he dies! Besides, your father’s soul is also in trouble!”

What he said was reasonable, and Du Xian didn't know how to explain it for a while.

Zhao said bitterly, "I won't go back anyway! Even if uncle comes!"

Du Shan still ignored her and looked at Du Wenyuan, "Wen Yuan, tell your uncle honestly, would you like to go to your grandmother? Your grandmother has prepared everything for you, and you look forward to it day and night, so you really want Have the heart to embarrass her an old man like this?"

"I naturally know how kind my grandmother is to me." Du Wenyuan lowered his head slightly, "But Mencius said, there are three things about unfilial people in etiquette. What is the reason for driving our family out of the Du family? If grandma is right, I have nothing to say, but if grandma is at fault first, forgive me for not being able to go back!"

It seems that the second brother didn't know the ins and outs of the matter, he only knew that his mother was beaten, and Du Xiaoyu was also staring at Du Shan, wanting to know what happened that year.

Before Du Shan could speak, Du Xian went uncharacteristically and pushed Du Shan away, urging him, "Uncle, you can go now!"

Mrs. Zhao shouted from behind, "Sir, what are you doing? I sit upright and walk straight. I want him to explain clearly, otherwise I really think I was wrong back then!"

"My lady, why bring up the old things again? I promise you, I won't go back."

Du Shan squinted his eyes and smiled, "Xian'er, there is a saying that paper can't cover fire. Your mother has kept her promise to hide it for you for so many years, which is considered as benevolent! You don't need to go back, your wife's scandal will make passers-by. I know!" He looked at Mrs. Zhao with disgust on his face, "After all, she is the daughter-in-law of a respectable family, why did such a thing happen, and instead of doing her duty, she had to hook up with a low-level farm laborer!"

"Ah!" Brother and sister Du Wenyuan let out a low cry at the same time.

To say that Mrs. Zhao hooked up with other men?Du Xiaoyu was stunned, she turned her head to look at Mrs. Zhao, she saw her face was pale and her body was trembling slightly, but she was standing up straight like a green pine in the wind and snow!
"That's my mother-in-law who framed me!" Mrs. Zhao paused, "I have a clear conscience!"

"So many pairs of eyes have seen you and you still deny it? I've never seen anything like this!" Du Shan said with contempt on his face, "Xian'er, you had to marry her back then, and you still haven't recognized her true colors? You This life is ruined by her!"

"Uncle, my lady is not such a person. She was clearly drunk that day, and there was no one to wait around..." Du Xian hurriedly argued, "Uncle, don't talk nonsense, my mother promised me, she will never say anything .”

Zhao exclaimed, "What are you afraid of, so what if others know? I, Zhao Xiuzhi, have never done anything against my will in my life! If my mother-in-law hadn't asked me to drink with her natal aunt that day, would I have been drunk? That person I I don’t know each other at all, but I have to say that I have been in love with others for a long time, hahaha,” she suddenly laughed, “Isn’t it just to find a name to beat me to death? Well, it’s great, after so many years After all, it hasn't changed!"

Du Xiaoyu's heart ached when he heard it, it seems that his father's back pain should be the result of protecting his mother from being beaten!She took two steps forward and hugged Zhao Shi and said, "Mother, grandma is such a bastard, we won't go back, even if we are killed!"

"Yes, what Xiaoyu said is true," Du Wenyuan clenched his fists, "Uncle, please tell Grandma, we will break up with her from now on!"

"You..." Du Shan was stunned, not understanding why they believed Zhao so much, and said after a while, "Xian'er, you have to think clearly, if the villagers know about this, it will not be a good thing!"

Du Xian knew that people's words were scary, he was afraid that Mrs. Zhao would not be able to bear this kind of torture, so he gritted his teeth and said, "I can go back, but..."

Before he finished speaking, Du Tang chuckled, "Brother, you should think about it!"

Du Xian only felt a tightness in his chest. Du Tang was the one who enforced the family law against his wife back then, and he knew about it. He even threatened him a while ago, saying that if he returned to Du's house, he would spread the news. It is the same today. The same is true if he doesn't return, his heart is as uncomfortable as being tormented in a raging fire, suddenly his eyes darken, and he falls to the ground.

(End of this chapter)