take a wife to support the family

Chapter 15

Two days after Wang Xiaofu left, Liu Yi came to the house with his wife and children.

Several people are old acquaintances, Liu Yi is Song Haonian's brother-in-law, Li Caifeng is the elder sister of Baihe Niang's family, Liu Yi and Song Haonian talk about their livelihood, Li Caifeng takes her daughter Xing'er and Baihe to gossip.

Xing'er is only four years old. She was ill a few days ago, but now she is recovering. Her big eyes follow Li Caifeng's. Parents love her for being smart. She is not shy when meeting people, and she is very lively.

Sometimes children are more sensitive than adults. For example, Liu Yi didn't feel that Lily had changed, but Li Caifeng just felt that Lily had opened up. Xing'er blinked her big eyes and said in a childlike voice, "Aunt Lily, you are not the same as before. .”

It stands to reason that when a woman marries, she always follows her husband's name. For example, people in the town call Li Caifeng "from Liu Yi's family", and Lily is naturally "from Da Nian's family".

But Li Caifeng and Baihe are sisters from the same family, and they call each other by their first names on weekdays. Xing'er thinks "Aunt Lily" sounds much better than "Aunt Da Nian", so she refuses to change her words, so the adults let her go.

Lily touched Xing'er's hair: "Then Xing'er, tell me, how is aunt different from before?"

Xing'er tilted her head, unable to speak for a moment.

Now Lily cleaned herself up very neatly, her hair was tied into a braid and tied behind her head, although her clothes were worn out, they were clean.

She used to never look at people with her eyes, and her expression was evasive, which made people feel impatient.But now he likes to laugh very much, and his yellow and thin ugly face is also a bit pleasing against the smile.

Li Caifeng tugged at Xing'er's little head, and said with a smile: "She has loved young girls since she was a child, and she was still breastfeeding at that time, she would rather not breastfeed, and let a good-looking person hug her."

Xing'er covered her head: "Mom, don't mess with me!" She is a little girl who loves beauty.

Lily smiled and said, "Then Xing'er will grow up quickly, when you grow your hair, auntie will make you a beautiful braid."

On that side, Liu Yi took out half a penny from his pocket and put it on the quilt, looked around, saw that it was much cleaner and tidy than before, and felt somewhat satisfied: "Your mother-in-law can live a good life now?"

Song Haonian had a warm smile on his face: "She's fine."

Liu Yi grinned: "Don't get too used to her, the mother-in-law still needs to be trained."

That being said, who in the town doesn't know that he is spoiled by Li Caifeng and Xing'er?Li Caifeng married him for seven or eight years, and she only gave birth to one daughter, Xing'er, and she never saw him say anything.

As long as Song Haonian knows this in his heart, he doesn't need to say it.Seeing him looking at the half hanging money, Liu Yi knew that his brother was very self-respecting and would not easily take advantage of others, so he hurriedly said: "Last time we sold goods together, this is your share."

Song Haonian said seriously: "Brother, I know that brothers are willing to take care of me, but last time I didn't finish what I was supposed to do, so I left my brothers and went home first, so I felt very sorry. This money is earned by brothers together Come, I'll go first, I shouldn't take as much as others."

At that time, he heard that the big girl jumped into the river, so he rushed back to Qingliu Town first, and the other brothers returned after more than half a month after selling the goods. They contributed more than him, but now they want to get the same dividend, he felt guilty.

Liu Yi said impatiently: "If you tell you to take it, take it, my brother, who cares about this with you? If you don't accept it, will you treat us as outsiders?"

This is a serious word, Song Haonian's ears turned red, and after a while he said: "Brother, then I will accept it, and thank you brothers for me. I will work harder when I have work again."

Liu Yi patted him on the shoulder with a smile, heaved a sigh of relief, and said, "At most two months, at least half a month, there will be another business trip, you should be prepared."

With the food from Wang Xiaofu, the family can temporarily relieve their urgent needs, and the money from Liu Yi can last for a while.Without the threat of starving to death at any time, both Song Haonian and Baihe can calm down and think about their future livelihood.

Every day, Lily carried a basket to the nearby fields to pick wild vegetables, such as the ash vegetables used to make porridge, which the townspeople ate less, but everyone in Liushan Village ate them to get through the difficult period of food shortage.

As soon as spring comes, all kinds of wild vegetables grow out. They are vigorous and grow better than grain.Eating porridge with half vegetables and half food can also survive the day, but it is far from the previous situation of eating meat every day. Not to mention Lily's eyes glowing green because of hunger, even Song Haonian also finds it difficult.

But there are only a few chickens left in the house, and I hope to rely on them to lay eggs in the future. In any case, I can't kill them for food, so I have to consider other methods if I want to make tooth sacrifices.

Song Haonian caught two hares in the traps he set in the mountains in winter, stripped them, washed them and hung them under the eaves, and ate up the odds and ends, so he dug a few more traps in the nearby mountains and set a few traps.

There are more than a dozen traps, and one or two can always trap prey, most of which are hares, and occasionally pheasants.The pheasant is fast and can fly, and it is very difficult to catch. Fortunately, Song Haonian's holster is strong and sensitive, so it can catch it.

The pheasants are still alive, so bring them back and sell them directly at the market. On the main road, servants and officials from rich families in the county often pass by. When they see pheasants, they are more welcome than fat chickens.

Half of the wild rabbits were killed and skinned, and the meat was hung under the eaves to dry as usual, and the family ate it slowly. In spring, the skins were not good, and people in the city looked down on them, and they didn't really care about rabbit meat.

Song Haonian is a well-known wanderer in the town—the rural area believes that farming is the right way, even at the door of Mr. Liu's house, there is a plaque that reads "Heirloom of Farming and Studying", and anyone who does not farm will be Called a libertine.If you don't learn well, you will be called a rascal.

Song Hao also hung out with a bunch of rascals a few years ago, and his reputation has not been very good since then.Later, he stopped interacting with those people, but he didn’t farm the land, didn’t stay at home, and was busy outside for many years. Except for his brothers, not many people in the town really thought highly of him and were willing to like him.

So he went to Liu's house and Zhou's house twice with the rabbit he had brought, but failed to sell it, and suffered a lot of ridicule instead.Of course, the gentlemen were unwilling to deal with him in person, and those who taunted him were nothing more than the servants, long-term workers of the Liu family, and neighbors who witnessed him being kicked out.

The wind reached Lily's ears, but she just pretended not to hear it, to save Song Haonian's face in front of her daughter-in-law.But before Song Haonian was going to go out next time, she suddenly remembered something: "Our family Yingchun is helping Mr. Liu's house. I haven't seen her for a few days. It's strange, I just want to visit her."

"How about I take these things along to show them, and if they want them, we can earn pocket money."

Song Haonian felt that the people in Master Liu's family were not easy to deal with, so he said in a low voice, "I'm afraid you'll be offended if you go alone, I'll go with you."

(End of this chapter)