"Dad, I'm exhausted today."

"Hey, it's still done. I'll finish all those tasks sooner or later. Haven't your grandmother and your mother come back yet?"

"No, my second sister is cooking, and I'm still thinking. When my mother and the others don't come back later, I'll go and see it. I guess that's still busy."

Sweet water didn't return home either.

Since I was so confused in the morning that I went out with her great-grandma.

I cleaned the pigpen on the old house. I heard that the child didn’t sleep at noon, so I also dealt with the adults at noon and helped watch the pigs.

Her eldest daughter is very sensible now.

While replying to the left-handed words, Zuo Xiaodao lifted the lid of the big pot and poured the hot water that had been prepared long ago into the basin, asking her father to wash it quickly.

At this time, when the sun sets, the hot water basin can be brought to the yard to see the white heat. If you don’t wash up quickly, the hot water will be cooler if you don’t take half a stick of incense.

The left-handed man did not go into the house to clean the clothes, took over his clean clothes, and directed his eldest daughter to bring the hot water basin to the yard, fearing that it would harm the ground of the new house.

Although the floor of his new house was not made of blue bricks, he used a lot of thought when building the house, and each house was covered with stone-polished floors.

During the relocation period, anyone who helped the village would praise anyone who came to their homes: "Your family is really good and clean, and it looks clean. It is definitely the first one in the village."

The left-handed man would reply: "What is the first one? It's not so exaggerating. I know what my family looks like in my heart. It's not as wealthy as the ones who lay blue bricks in the house. We are all the same."

He said it very humble, but only the left-handed man knew that he was always praised for his neat house, and he felt very satisfied.

In the countryside, the house at home is decent and clean, which is also one of the signs of a good life.

Because this shows that the family is rich, there is no need to worry about food and drink, and there is also a bad mind.

If it were those families who could not even get enough food and drink, they would not have the intention to clean the house. It would be so simple to keep the ground clean. Many families of families brought mud on their feet into the house.

For this reason, although the left-handed man is a big man, he cherishes this new house more than anyone else in order to maintain the praise in the village. Even the eldest son-in-law in the study gave him a new Grand Master chair, as if he was afraid that he would not sit in front of an outsider. Many times he would rather sit on a small bench and write.

His mother-in-law discovered it several times and asked him what was wrong with it. She scolded him again. He could have a baby with a new chair, so he dared to slowly absorb this blessing.

The left-handed bent down and first picked up some wood ash in the box, washed it from the hair, then washed its nose, ears, eyes, and big neck.

It is the first time to use wood ash. When it washes thoroughly, it will wash it again with soapcorns.

It can't be washed clean at all once.

At this day, the left-handed man was busy with firewood and had long been missing.

Hululu, Hulululu, the water that was thrown by the left-handed man was covered with water stains. In the blink of an eye, the clear water turned into black mud.

The left-handed man pressed his outer clothes into the basin and kneaded them with his hands for a few seconds. While washing, he talked to Mr. Zhu and said:

"These kids at home are not making trouble, right? You always have to suffer for another day. When the Luo family ducks sell the same thing, they will have nothing to do if they are busy. This year's wine trading is not good, so it's just that Dao's mother will stop brewing wine and watch the children at home. At that time, you can always go out for a walk. It's also time to go with me to see the county. When winter comes, I have free time."

Mr. Zhu helped hand the dry clothes to the left-handed man: "I'm not tired, it's a big deal to see a child. But today, Tianshui's mother and your second daughter are pickled vegetables and storing carrots and cabbages in the cellar. I'm tired and have to take care of feeding these little ones."

The left-handed looked at the yard, but the cabbage and radish that were piled up near the warehouse and the walls were gone. He was thinking of getting up early tomorrow.

Otherwise, I often say that my daughter is a little cotton-padded jacket, and when I go back to my parents' home, I will do whatever work I do. If I don't do this job, I will be tired in the end.

It has been even more true since I lived together. It was not like the daughter-in-law in the village. There were many daughters-in-law in the village. It looked like there were quite a few people, but if you do more, she would have had many fights. If there were too many troubles, he knew this.

The left-handed man doesn't show his face and feels very comfortable. After a busy day, his heels are so tired that he is so painful that he can't stand up, and his shoulders are swollen that he can't lift his arms. Isn't it just the enthusiasm for living in his heart?

I saw two baskets of mushrooms picked in the courtyard and asked, "Has the orchid been here and helped again? Before I entered the house, I looked at the back and looked at her."

Mr. Zhu: "Well, I helped pick the mushrooms and hug the firewood before leaving."

The left-handed man pretended to be angry, and wiped his hair with a linen veil, shouting to the kitchen: "Dao, your sister-in-law is here, why don't you know how to keep food? I've lived in a village for so long and your sister-in-law has never been to serve a job. What's going on? Let me tell you that if you drive Lancao tomorrow, you must finish your meal at home before leaving. How can you be so kind?"

Mr. Zhu snatched the words: "There is a mother-in-law on the orchid, so no wonder the sweet girl is sweet. Orchid is in a hurry to go back to cook."

No big happenings happen in a farmer’s house. You will eat and drink for free at other people’s houses. That would make people pay attention to it in secret.

So Mr. Zhu did not agree with the Zhu family who often came to visit Han Village. Not only Lancao, but also when the family was split, he had already agreed with several grandchildren and daughter-in-law in the family that they were very busy and should not always come to see him if they had nothing to do.

It is not easy to support the elderly, and Dezi and Xiaodao will have to entertain these people at that time.

Xiaodou looked at the eldest sister and smiled.

Xiaodao also smiled helplessly.

The two sisters understand each other very well. It is not good to live with their parents. No matter whether they are reasonable or not, their parents always criticize them first.

Not only Lancao, like her father, she just shouted like this for the sake of face. She always quarrels with Zhu Xingde. Xiaodou and Manshan even more so, after all, Manshan is honest.

Then the stepmother will ask in detail: "What are you quarreling? Don't blame your father and I for scolding you first without discrimination. You are your biological child and don't care. We can't blame our son-in-law first when we hear quarrels. This is the case with every family. Whoever lives with parents, they will have to be more or less angry."

Listen, their parents understand so much.

Xiaodao is used to it now, and he replied with a good temper: "I know, dad."

As we were talking, the door rang, Xiuhua and Magnolia finally returned home with sweet water.

When they entered the yard, they shouted that they should pour hot water and wash it first, and they were covered in smell of smell. It would be the right thing to not make wine in the past few days, otherwise the wine would have to take up the smell.

At this time, the left-handed man had washed up and went into the house happily to hold his grandchildren.

When Magnolia scooped hot water, she asked her daughters, "After the meal, count how many broken duck eggs she got back from the Luo family. She couldn't hold the thing, so she put dozens of them for me."

"What are you doing?" Although I couldn't let go, my family was not yet at the point where I couldn't finish eating.

"I think about pretending to give you Uncle Li. I see that his boy is no longer as thin as hell recently. It is best not to get sick and take medicine in late autumn. Otherwise, the little money the family has earned from your grandmother will be put into the medicine soup. I will give some duck eggs for the four of them to have a tooth-beating sacrifice. It is better to eat some good things than taking medicine."

"Another basket..." Bai Yulan stopped to look at the yard and found that she was washing her hair. She couldn't hear her talking at all. Then she approached the two daughters and whispered: "To Zuo Lizheng's family. Today, the man was very tired to help our family work. That's good, what should you do? But there are also daughters-in-law in each house. Who knows if you say behind your back that your grandmother needs to be facing forward but not behind. Let's send some duck eggs to let them shut up, which can also be considered a way to make your grandmother's face. We don't have that little food to eat."

This is Magnolia's heart disease.

She would rather eat less than even eat at home than be surprised that outsiders said that she was relying on her own mother to find the old man.

In the past, there was no way for me to marry twice and three times. She didn't have the conditions to help her get tough. Now that the family can fill her stomach, she always thinks about helping me. At least she can't let people outside pay attention to her mother, and she looks for an old man to work or make money.

Xiaodao knew that her mother was worried, so a while ago, her sister's mother-in-law asked someone to send some white ducks and some pickled salted duck eggs. Her mother also gave them to Zuo Lizheng's house first and picked them for the ones.

"I understand, mom, I'll go and deliver it after I finish eating."

That's right, Zuo Xiaodao was sent out these days. Magnolia rarely climbed to Zuo Lizheng's house, for fear that others would say she would flatter her father.

Mom wants to save face.

...

The Zuo family’s meals tonight were not quite sumptuous. At least it was much worse than the time when their son-in-law were at home. For example, they were reluctant to move bacon, and planned to wait for their family to eat them. It was just an ordinary farm dish.

Since the grain tax has increased a lot, the food for brewing wine is not enough, and the Zuo family has also been slightly tightening their stomachs on their food.

There was only a large plate of mushrooms and a large basket of dipped pickles on the dining table.

In addition to the two clean wild vegetables in the dip sauce, there is also a bowl of hot autumn spinach, a large bowl of duck egg sauce, and a pot of winter melon and crucian carp soup.

The crucian carp was brought back by Zhu Xingchang after selling ducks from outside two days ago. It was said that the county was leaning against the river. Many people were fishing and selling crucian carp very cheaply. Ji San from the county wine shop bought a few. He also asked Boss Zhu to tell him that he would not be reluctant to eat it. The whole family would eat it. He would buy it once every two or three days and ask someone to bring it.

Everyone understands that this is for Xiuhua to eat, and by the way, Xiaodao and Xiaodou drink more milk. The uncle Ji San in the county is very thoughtful.

Isn't that right? Xiaodao is planning to serve a bowl of it each.

But Mr. Zhu and the left-handed avoided it, "I'm impatient to drink that, burn my mouth, and give me some big porridge."

The Zuo family’s staple food tonight was big-grain porridge, served with good cucumber and corn.

The meals for the whole family were very sweet.

Tianshui was smiling and gnawing corn, looking at Mr. Zhu, and often answered what his great-grandfather had eaten in the old house at noon. He also teased his younger brother and sister on the kang after gnawing corn.

Magnolia sat on the edge of the kang, hurriedly picking up food, while holding a few milk dolls on the kang tightly with her hands. As long as she was at home, she tried to stop Xiaodao and Xiaodou and could rest as much as possible. Don’t take care of the children when eating, and you can’t stop eating.

The beautiful flowers were covered with wet hair that had just been washed, and they were half full, and the chopsticks were slowing down a little. It can be seen that today's work has made the old lady very tired and hungry.

The family was eating and shouting outside: "Auntie, buy something."

Emma, ​​there is nothing left in the small shop at home. It’s almost a bad stall and I’m still here to buy things. I didn’t find that my house is not open very much.

Xiaodao and Xiaodou have to get up, but Magnolia won’t let her. The daughter drinks more soup to make her breasts easier.

But the white magnolia is about to get up, and the beautiful flowers are not allowed to do so.

This is really the child who loves.

Xiuhua complained while stopping the white magnolia who was about to get off the kang: "Eat your meal, I'll go."

After a while, Xiuhua came back and opened the oil jar.

"Mom, why are you stinging? Who wants to buy what?"

Xiuhua sighed: "The widow Huang who lives in the village is no longer good. Her boy came over and said he was a strong person for the rest of his life and never greedy. This time, when he closed his eyes, he kept thinking about eating lard bibimbap. After borrowing several families, he said there was no lard. What's there? He should be afraid of borrowing a spoon and going back to ask for it. A village lives in a village that is too unmannerable and shameless. After all, it is still the widow Huang's family is poor, and he is afraid that he will not repay it after borrowing it. We would rather push it out. How can we raise pigs at this critical moment?

To be fair, Xiuhua is still willing to help some strong women. It is not easy. She gave her a spoonful of them, and she sold them and gave them. Don't let people regret it before leaving.

After Xiuhua returned from giving the other party lard, a rustling sound suddenly came from outside.

She ate this meal: "Emma, ​​why is it raining heavily?" There was no sign at all.

As the rain fell, there was only sweet water left on the dining table. The young lady did not dare to move around. She wanted to guard her younger brother and sister not to fall off the kang.

The left-handed hurriedly pulled off the straw raincoat hanging on the wall and ran to the farm.

His dozens of chickens and big gooses are still out to play, thanks to the old house where Li Er and his family are guarding him. He doesn't need to go see the pigs. In this kind of weather, weasels should be wary of not harming the chickens.

Since Xiaomai left, the weasel has dared to come to Zuo’s house for a walk.

Magnolia and Xiuhua were carrying torches and running towards the wine cellar together.

My family received a job of transporting wine to the government. The wine cellar now has no wine storage, so it is so open to ventilate. I have to close the wine cellar door and see if it will leak.

Xiaodao, Xiaodou and Mr. Zhu, the three of them didn't even care about the guy who blocked the rain. While they were anxious to build the cellar door, they rushed to the new houses to collect things. The dishes, mushrooms, and newly washed clothes were all poured by the rain.

Mr. Zhu didn't care whether his legs were good or not, and kept holding firewood into the house.

I was afraid of a coincidence that Li Er's daughter came to shout, "Grandma, the old sow at home is about to be born."

So, the Zuo family is particularly busy today, and they are busy with rain until they go home in the middle of the night. The family gathers together again but they are not sleepy at all.

Because the heart that knew the inside story was cleared, this coincided with the dream Zhu Xingde had before leaving.
Chapter completed!