Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 12074

"Mother, listen to this! Is that reasonable? Isn't Sixi her own son? Doesn't she want the best for her own son?"

"Four sons, three of them stay at home with hoe handles, and one son goes out to try a different way of life, what's wrong with that? What if he succeeds? Wouldn't he have to help his brothers out? What was she thinking, sigh!"

Hearing Xiu Hong's complaints, Cao Ba Mei was also filled with indignation and incomprehension.

"Don't take her words seriously, just treat them like a fart and let it go!" Cao Bamei could only comfort Xiuhong in this way, because no one could change Sixi Niang's mind.

Even if Sixi's father slaps him, it's only a temporary solution.

Xiu Hong smiled and said, "Mother, don't worry. I know what kind of person my mother-in-law is. I'm too lazy to argue with her."

“Just these past few days, whenever she saw Sisi and me busy moving a few changes of clothes from the old house to the new house, she would still make sarcastic remarks.”

"Saying that the old swallow fed the baby swallow bite by bite, and that it's heartless and ungrateful once its wings are strong enough to fly away..."

"Anyway, Sixi and I will pretend we don't hear it and let her say whatever she wants. We'll move out in a few days and then we'll finally have some peace and quiet."

"Yes, honey, you're right. Just ignore it, it'll be fine in a few days."

The mother and daughter were eating and chatting in the kitchen when Sixi came over in the yard.

He came specifically to pick up Xiu Hong and take her back, even though the road from the village entrance to his house wasn't far.

But that's how newlyweds are; they're so lovey-dovey, they practically want to be twins.

"Oh ho, Sixi, why are you here to pick me up again? Can't Xiuhong stay at her parents' house tonight?"

Seeing her second son-in-law's honest and simple appearance, Cao Bamei couldn't help but tease him a bit.

Si Xi blushed, lowered her head, and was too embarrassed to speak, only chuckling.

When Xiu Hong saw him arrive, a sweet smile appeared in her eyes, but she deliberately said to Sixi, "I told you before that you didn't need to pick me up. It's just a short walk. I'll go back by myself."

Si Xi finally spoke up: "That won't do, it's so late at night, I'm not comfortable with that."

"Tch!" Xiu Hong deliberately rolled her eyes at Sixi, picked up the bowl and gulped down the remaining rice soup.

Only when she returned to her parents' home could she eat and drink as she pleased without any regard for her image, until her belly was round and full.

Cao Bamei didn't insist on keeping him, but found a lantern and handed it to Sixi, saying, "Take this, it will light the way."

"Thank you, Mother-in-law."

"Oh, don't be so polite."

This kid and his mother are like two completely different people. Cao Bamei really doesn't understand how a woman like Sixi's mother could raise such an honest and simple child as Sixi.

On the way back, Sixi carried a lantern in one hand and held Xiuhong's hand in the other.

The young couple didn't rush; they strolled back slowly, as if taking a leisurely walk.

"I had stir-fried cured pork and lettuce at my parents' house today. It was so delicious with rice, I ate two bowls!" Xiu Hong said, gesturing with two fingers to Sixi.

Si Xi smiled at Xiu Hong: "You like to eat lettuce?"

"Yes, I really like eating lettuce!"

"That's great! I'll clean up our little yard later, dig two vegetable plots, and plant lettuce in the second half of the year!" Sixi said.

"Great!" Xiu Hong was really looking forward to her little courtyard and vegetable garden. "By the way, what are you having for dinner tonight?"

Si Xi thought for a moment, "The same old thing, dumpling soup."

Do you have any eggs?

Si Xi shook his head.

There were eggs, but they were only in the bowls of Dad and the eldest brother. No one else, including the second sister-in-law who had just given birth to a daughter, had any eggs.

As for these people, there were no eggs at all, and the dumpling soup was so thin that it was practically the same as not eating anything at all.

"Why didn't you say so before? There's still rice in the pot at my parents' house. I could have made you some fried rice with eggs!" Xiu Hong said, a little annoyed.

Si Xi gently shook Xiu Hong's hand, saying, "I don't want to eat too much tonight."

"Oh, well, you're so pitiful!" Xiu Hong looked at Sixi and sighed.

If she gets a craving, she can always run back to her parents' home to freeload and have some special meals prepared for her.

But Si Xi is, after all, a son-in-law, and there's a certain distance between them. If he were to sneak into the kitchen of the second room every day like she does, people would say he's a freeloader.

The food for Si Xi's family was already bad, and under the strong intervention of her mother-in-law, it was divided into three, six, and nine equal portions.

This is infuriating!
“Let’s be patient a little longer. In a few days, we’ll move back to our own house, and then I’ll cook delicious meals for you every day,” Xiu Hong said.

"it is good!"

"By the way, when you came out to meet me, the courtyard gate wasn't locked from the inside, was it?" Xiu Hong asked again.

Although it's not very late, it's not early either. My mother-in-law's family is clearly dirt poor, but they're still extremely vigilant. After dinner, they immediately bolted the gate to the yard, looking very nervous.

Sixi said, "It won't be locked. I told the others before I came out to meet you, so they'll leave the door open for us."

"That's good. I don't want to have to climb over the wall like I did the last few times," Xiu Hong said.

The last few times, she hadn't figured out her husband's family's habits. She ate dinner at her parents' house without paying attention to the time and went back late. As a result, she called from the front yard to the back yard, and the whole family of more than ten people were all deaf!

She was so angry she almost kicked down the gate! Luckily, her third brother and sister-in-law heard the commotion and ran out to open the gate...

The young couple were in high spirits. Hand in hand, they walked to the gate of the courtyard. Sixi stepped forward and pushed it, but found that the gate did not budge.

"What's going on? I clearly left it ajar when I left, how come it's locked again?" Sixi muttered to himself, pushing harder while calling out to the people inside, "Dad, Mom, open the door!"

I didn't call my third brother and sister-in-law to open the door today because they've been away from home for the past two days; they went back to my sister-in-law's parents' house with her.

Si Xi called out several times, but no one answered from inside the house.

Xiu Hong stood to the side, arms crossed, sneering.

“This is obviously something your mother did on purpose!” she said.

Si Xi understood perfectly well. He was just helpless! When Mingming left, he deliberately told everyone not to lock the door in front of his mother. That was too much!
In the room.

Si Xi's father wasn't home tonight; he was called out to play cards right after dinner.

Da Xi and his wife had already gone to bed. Da Xi was sleeping soundly, snoring loudly. Da Xi's wife, on the other hand, wasn't asleep, but she would absolutely not disobey her mother's wishes to open the door for her fourth brother and the others.

In Erxi's room, neither Erxi nor his wife could sleep. After having a daughter, their sleep schedule had become very irregular.

"Mom, why did you have to lock the door? It's making such a racket outside, and you'll wake our daughter up!" Erxi's wife hugged her daughter, her face full of annoyance.

"If you really can't do it, go open the door!" She kicked Erxi, who was lying sprawled out at the foot of the bed.

Erxi glared back at him: "I'm afraid you think life is too easy, and you don't want to be dragged off the bed and thrown out of the yard by your mother tomorrow. You're just being nosy!"

Erxi's wife rolled her eyes: "Your whole family, not a single one of you is normal! I'm speechless!"

The room closest to the courtyard gate was the east wing where Sixi's parents lived.

If Sixi's father were home tonight, Sixi's mother would never dare to do this on purpose, because she is afraid of Sixi's father's slap.

Isn't this just a coincidence? Si Xi had just left home to pick up Xiu Hong from his father-in-law's house at the village entrance when Si Xi's father was called away by several other villagers to play cards.

When Sixi's father isn't working in the fields, he either drinks with others or plays cards; he enjoys these two things.

Moreover, once they go out to play cards, especially at night, they will definitely play all night before returning home.

So this pleased Sixi's mother, who immediately bolted the courtyard gate from the back and told her eldest and second sons to sleep soundly at night and not to get up no matter what noise they heard, and not to meddle in other people's business!
Especially when it came to the words "meddling in other people's business," Sixi's mother emphasized them even more.

How could the eldest and second eldest sons not understand? So at this moment, they had all blown out the candles in their rooms early on, or covered their heads with blankets, and didn't make a sound when called!

As for Sixi's mother, she also blew out the oil lamp in the room, but she did not go to sleep. Instead, she quietly got out of bed, stood by the window, and peered at the movement on the other side of the courtyard gate.

Hearing Sixi banging on the door and begging to open it, Sixi's mother revealed a triumphant smile in the darkness.

"You little brat, you've forgotten your mother after you got married!"

"Weren't you showing off having a father-in-law? Well, take your wife to your father-in-law's place to sleep tonight!"

"This old house belongs to me, so I'm not leaving the door open for you. What can you do about it?"

Just as Sixi's mother was hiding behind the doors and windows, enjoying Sixi's knocking on the door, and feeling quite pleased with herself, outside the courtyard gate, Sixi, burning with anger, took a few steps back, ready to kick the door with all his might.

"Stop kicking!" Xiu Hong stopped him.

“The bolts behind this door are thicker than my arm, and there are two of them. You couldn’t get in even if you kicked your leg off!” Xiu Hong said again.

Ever since Sixi's mother locked them outside the courtyard the first two times, Xiuhong had been paying attention to the door bolt.

Si Xi was already panting heavily from all the previous actions, and hearing the strength of the door bolt only made him more irritable.

"I'll climb over the wall and open the door for you!" Si Xi said, starting to walk around to the top of the wall, looking for the best place to climb over.

However, they discovered that the top of the wall had been covered with thorns at some point.

“I remember now, your mother asked your eldest brother and sister-in-law to lay these on the wall a few days ago. She said that at the end of the first lunar month, when food is scarce, there will be thieves in the village, and she wanted to lay thorns and brambles on the wall to kill those petty thieves!” Xiu Hong said.

Si Xi spat on the ground: "The thief didn't kill me, but he almost turned me into a hedgehog. What the hell is that?"

"Fine, I'll go knock on the door. If they don't let us in, I'm going to make sure no one gets any sleep tonight!"

Si Xi's anger was burning brighter and brighter, but Xiu Hong stopped him.

“Forget it, the more pitiful we scream, the happier your mother will be,” she said. “You can never wake someone who is pretending to be asleep. Besides, tonight’s whole thing is clearly a show for the two of us. The more intensely we act, the more we try to get inside, the happier they will be.”

"Xiuhong, what do you mean?"

“Let’s sleep in the new house!” Xiu Hong said. “Anyway, we’ve already moved all the bedding and stuff from the new house over!”

Si Xi's eyes lit up: "Okay, let's go. We won't pick a day, there are no taboos."

While Sixi was saying things like "no taboos," Xiuhong was already looking for the key to the new house on her person. Then, she discovered something not so pleasant.

"Oh no, I didn't bring the house key with me."

Where is it?

"In the yard, under the pillow in our room."

"That's it, we can't go!"

They're all stuck outside the yard. If they could get the key under the pillow, would they still be standing here?

“A living person can’t be suffocated by urine. Let’s go, let’s go to my parents’ house to sleep.” Xiu Hong took Sixi’s hand and turned to leave.

Sixi hesitated for a moment: "If this happens, my family's situation will be exposed."

"What else are you trying to hide? Trying to whitewash your mother? Does your mother appreciate it? And who was it that left us stranded outside in the middle of the night?" Xiu Hong angrily shook off Sixi's hand. "If you want to be a dutiful son, then go ahead and be one. I'm going back to my parents' home. Come or don't come if you want!"

Si Xi glanced at the tightly closed wooden door, showing no intention of opening it.

He gritted his teeth, turned around, and chased after Xiu Hong without hesitation.

At the entrance of the village, at the gate of the small three-room house.

At this moment, everyone had eaten and drunk their fill in the third room, and they had basically finished discussing the matter of sending wreaths to Zhoujia Village the day after tomorrow. To thank everyone for taking the time to help the Luo family, Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang escorted Yang Huaming, Yang Huazhou, Yang Yongjin, Yang Yongzhi and others to the gate of the courtyard.

Seeing someone off at the gate of the courtyard doesn't mean they leave immediately; they continue talking while standing by the main road at the gate.

Suddenly, Yang Yongzhi saw two people coming from the pond. "Hey? Aren't those Xiuhong and Sixi? Why are they coming over so late at night?"

Yang Yongzhi's words drew everyone's attention, and they all turned their gazes toward the two figures walking quickly across the pond.

Yang Yongjin recognized them at a glance as his second daughter and son-in-law.

He was puzzled. His second daughter had eaten dinner at her parents' house earlier, and she should have gone home after dinner. Could she have left something behind?
So Yang Yongjin took two steps forward and loudly asked the person coming from the other side, "Er Yatou, what brings you and Sixi here again? What's up?"

Xiu Hong and Sixi had been arguing the whole way here. Xiu Hong was mainly criticizing Sixi for still trying to save face for his mother at a time like this. He was trying his best to defend her, but she didn't appreciate it and continued to cause trouble. This wasn't filial piety; it was blind obedience.

A person who is blindly filial to his parents is destined to cause his wife to suffer, and she felt extremely wronged at that moment.

Si Xi, on the other hand, kept apologizing and swearing that he wasn't trying to protect his in-laws, but simply didn't want to make a big fuss and upset them...

Suddenly, the young couple heard Yang Yongjin's voice and looked up.

It's over!
A group of people were standing at the entrance of the three courtyards in front, including Aunt Qing'er and Uncle Luo!

Xiu Hong and Sixi immediately became obedient. They really wanted to perform a magic trick where they could disappear on the spot, but unfortunately, nothing worked.

Not only were pairs of eyes fixed on them, but Yang Yongjin was already walking towards them.