Pinellia pastoral

Chapter 155 Two years later
Time flows slowly.

Winter goes to spring, the seasons alternate, and the two cold and hot summers pass like this.

Day by day, it seems that there is not much difference between today and yesterday, but after two years, looking back, many things have changed unknowingly.

As if just yesterday, the wedding sedan chair had just been lifted out of the door, and the sound of the suona was still echoing in her ears. Today, Wu Mei returned to her natal family with the child in her arms.

The spring is cold and the wind is still a bit cutting, but the willow trees on both sides of the road have already sprouted buds, which seem to be a little green from a distance, but they can't see buds from a closer distance.

The carriage was turning round and round.

Wu Mei held a small person in her arms, and Wu Liangping stood aside, watching with gentle eyes.

"I wanted to come back with you a few days ago, but there are too many things on the other side and I can't get away, so it has been dragging on until now."

Wu Mei wiped the child's saliva, and said gently, "It's nothing, mother will come out to see, it's good now, although the weather is colder, fortunately there is nothing to do, everyone stays indoors."

After finishing speaking, he didn't say much, and turned to tease the child, "You will see little uncle soon."

At the end of the year after Wumei got married, Sun gave birth to a son, named Su Yuanlei, who was naturally the youngest boy in Yuanguang's life.

The next year, Wu Mei went through a lot of trouble before she conceived a child, and now, Yaya is less than half a year old, and she doesn't know anything while spitting bubbles in Wu Mei's mouth.

Wu Liangping smiled, and looked outside, suddenly a little surprised, "It's not spring plowing yet, it's so lively outside!"

Wu Mei hastily wrapped her up for Yaya, her eyes felt a little sad, the surroundings were so familiar, the brook gurgled past, the dusty village road meandered in front of her eyes, the willow trees on both sides of the road could be seen from here. She was a little excited about the banana tree on the courtyard wall.

Just like yesterday, she sighed, her voice calmed down, "Father, we have already arrived at the entrance of the village, why don't we take a few steps?"

Wu Liangping glanced at Yaya, seeing that Wu Mei had wrapped up the child, and seeing her firm eyes, he didn't agree.

After coming down, Wumei's expression improved a lot, as if breathing the air here brought her whole body back to life, counting her fingers, when she first entered the door, it was naturally not good to always go back to her mother's house. Pregnant, raising a baby, confinement, the child is too young, Wu Liangping is too busy, such a short distance, but it is so difficult to come back. After becoming a mother, I am not myself anymore.

All kinds of hardships are not humane.

Now that I got off the carriage, I was right in front of the brook. The water flow gradually increased, but it was also clear and cool. When I was a girl, I just washed clothes here. She stared at the water, Some stay.

When the wind blew, there was some pain on the face, Banxia let out a sigh of relief on her hands, and held her ears again, "That's right, that's right, that's it, have you seen it, it's fine just like Tie Niu, just hit it from the other end When the rotten ones are broken, pour a small basin into it at a time, then add water, shake the gauze rack, add water three times in a row, and then the dregs will be dunked out, it doesn’t matter if it’s slow at first.”

Few people can't do this kind of work, and Ban Xia just came over to have a look.

"Banxia, ​​you little girl, do you still know this?" Tieniu's new daughter-in-law, Baishi, saw the white juice bubbling away, her eyes widened.

The people on the side responded with a smile, "What do you know? This is in the workshop. I don't know how many times I have tried it. How can I just do nothing? Look at Banxia's hands, there must be calluses."

Ban Xia touched the cocoon in her hand, smiled noncommittally, turned her head, and saw Wu Mei standing by the stream with her child in her arms, she was overjoyed, and said, "You do it like this, the idea is not to let the water flow out." , and rest when the pool is full!"

After finishing speaking, he ran over, "Sister, why did you come out to blow the air, be careful!"

Wumei saw that Banxia's body had already started to stretch, she was much taller, she looked a little slim, her face was rosy, and her mood was better, she said with a smile, "It's tightly wrapped, how can there be such a thing?" Delicate."

Seeing that her expression was as usual, Ban Xia was also happy in her heart. According to the Wu family, the old lady had high hopes for this baby. She was born as a girl, and it hurt as well, but she still had regrets in the end.

Fortunately, they are young and their bones are good, so regeneration is just a matter of life.

Anyway, the eldest brother-in-law has nothing to say to the eldest sister.

When Banxia heard Wumei say that Yaya is not that delicate, she couldn't help but think about it, and then changed the subject calmly, "Sister, come over and have a look, do you know what we are doing?"

Wumei looked at the rice field by the stream, surrounded by a half-foot-high long pond, which was paved with oil paper, and next to the stream, three bamboos built a frame, and a hook was hung from it, and two pieces were fastened to it. Crossed bamboo slices, there is a hole at both ends of the bamboo slices, tied with gauze, like boiling soybean milk.

"This is that cassava!" Wu Mei was shocked, thinking of what Mint had chanted when she went to see her, and was very surprised.

Banxia smiled with her eyebrows bent, "Isn't that the cassava, I didn't have time to make it when I dug it last year, and now I have been processing it into cassava flour. If you dig this cassava and sell it directly, you can't make much money. It can be made into cassava. You can put the powder first."

After explaining a few more words, Ban Xia and Wu Mei walked home together.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw a child coming out to greet me, staggering over, "Big sister is back!"

This is Yuan Lei, Mrs. Sun got such a kid, and her waist is much straighter than before. Although she didn't work in the workshop, she was busy with Minhe and lived a good life.

There was a sound of shouting and cursing, and a new daughter-in-law came out of the kitchen.

Wu Mei and Ban Xia call each other Aunt Wu.

Seeing them, Yao Shi smiled shyly and went back to work.

Wu Mei sighed, "The other end is still the same?"

Ban Xia looked helpless, "Who says it's not, she must say that she won the fifth uncle, so she won't pass the exam, even the elder brother can get a scholar, and the fifth uncle is full of knowledge, so he didn't get anything. Now Aunt Fifth is having a hard time."

"The nanny was dissatisfied with this relative from the beginning."

Ban Xia is clear, dissatisfied is naturally dissatisfied, who would have thought that Su Youwen ran away for so long, and then came back to go to Yao's family to propose marriage, Su Qian has always regarded this youngest son as an eyeball, how could he be so casual Just marry a wife, or under the circumstances that I don't know.

But in the end, he couldn't hold back, and he didn't dare to push too hard, for fear that he would run away again. The shadows of Mrs. Li and Mrs. Sun.Being detained by Su Qian, even if he talked to this end, Su Qian would show his face.

"You haven't separated yet?"

"Say yes! But..." But because Su Yuanfeng is now a scholar, Su Youwen didn't get anything. If he really wants to divide it, Su Qian is afraid of losing money, and he is afraid that Su Youwen doesn't know what to do. Those who can go to the fields can't support themselves, Su Youde is thinking that if the family is separated, the old man Su and the Su Qian family will naturally rely on the big house to support them, so they just mess around like this.

You can't just stand here and say, Ban Xia smiled, "Eldest sister, elder brother-in-law, if you have nothing to do, come and sit by my side for a while."

Yuan Lei stumbles over, grabbing Ban Xia's clothes.

Wu Mei and Wu Liangping went to the main room first, and brought presents to Mr. Su and Mrs. Su Qian's. They were some nourishing herbs and cakes. Wu Liangping carried them in both hands, full of them.

No matter how outsiders look at it, the courtesy they should have is never lacking.

After a while, Mrs. Su Qian's voice came to criticize Mrs. Yao, "Gold is so expensive! You dare to serve tea leaves like you! Who cares about your tea? I don't see you so clever! But you also made a mistake. My idea, other people have mountains of gold and silver, and I, a dead old woman, can't enjoy half of it..."

It was like this again, Wu Mei had nothing to say, so she left.

The voice inside still didn't stop, "I'm going out to enjoy the blessings, the old man and I died at home and no one will know!"

Going into the second room, I saw Mint busy here, "Sister, brother-in-law, father and mother are at the third uncle's side, they said they were discussing things, why don't you talk about it when you come back today."

That being the case, a group of people simply followed.

In the past two years, the workshop has expanded a bit. The people who work in the rice noodle shop have basically settled down. The snail noodle shop has a good reputation, but it is not afraid of others to follow suit. Pinellia just prepares the ingredients, and the rest is handed over. Others do it.

The same is true at the other end of the yuba workshop. There is no need to worry too much. These two places allow many people in the village to work and get paid.

But Ban Xia knew that these were not enough.

In the past two years, the family has been working hard, and the rice noodle workshop has sold a lot. Although the yuba workshop has not started for a long time, the profit is even higher, and a lot of soybeans are consumed every day.

Naturally, I also made some money, and bought land with this money. Now, there are several cassava ridges alone. These are not expensive, but they are useful to buy. On both sides of the village road to the town, I also bought some land with a lot of broken stones on it. It seems that there are not many things to grow, but fortunately the price is cheap.In addition, several tens of acres of fertile land were also bought. Su Youli and Mrs. Li were worried about gains and losses at the beginning, but because they held the land deed, they became more confident.

Bo He took Yuan Lei's little hand, seeing him stretching out his hands to hug her, she patted it lightly, "You're a boy, do you know that? You can't be coquettish like a girl!"

Yuan Lei seemed to understand but half understood, pouted his mouth and wanted to cry.

It made Wu Mei laugh a little bit.

The door on this side was not opened, and from the road to the cobblestone side, there was a lot of voices and steam, and it was next to the yard over there, but it seemed like two worlds.

Su Youyi and Mrs. Sun were indeed sitting in the room at the other end of the yuba workshop.

When they went in, they just heard Su Youyi making a decision, "Okay, let's build a house together!"

(End of this chapter)