Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Gossip pissed people off

Changping Village.

In desperation, old Yangtou lived in Yang Huazhong's house with little old Yangtou.

Yang Huazhong's heart was relieved, and then he could contact Lizheng in several neighboring villages to discuss strengthening the embankment.

Among the eight villages in the surrounding area, Changping Village and Lijia Village have the largest territory and the largest population.

In other words, Changping Village and Lijia Village are the eldest brother and the second brother, and the other small villages are the younger brothers of the servants.

So basically, as long as Yang Huazhong and Li Jia meet and reach a consensus, it is basically more than half of the success.

Who is Li Jia?

Li Zheng of Li Family Village, Li Wei's uncle.

Li Wei is also the grandson-in-law of the old Yang family, so the old Yang family and the Li family are in-laws. Yang Huazhong and Li Jia often drink together.

In addition, the matter of strengthening the embankment was originally proposed by Luo Fengtang, so when Yang Huazhong and Li Jia and Li Yi brothers talked about it, it was unanimously approved.

Things went very smoothly, several surrounding villages acted together, and every household mobilized staff.

When encountering some villagers who were not willing to go, Li Zheng first reasoned.

What?Doesn't make sense?
Okay, it's hard to say about the corvee and miscellaneous taxes in the coming year.

In the future, if the disaster-stricken yamen here distributes relief food, your family will not be so easy to talk about!

Don't underestimate Lizheng, a small official who can't even be considered a ninth-rank sesame official. In the village, the emperor doesn't even have a place to use. Do you think it's evil or not?
Therefore, repairing river embankments has become the hottest topic in eight villages.

So much so that the women by the pond at the entrance of the village stopped talking about the abuse of their daughter-in-law by the old Wang's mother-in-law when they washed their clothes, and instead talked about repairing the embankment.

But there are various arguments.

"...Some people said that the embankment is not worth repairing, and the water level is still far from the full river. They said that we are wasting people and money, but I was so pissed off. I argued with them for a long time before!"

After breakfast, Yang Ruoqing visited her natal family next door as usual, and Mrs. Liu happened to be here too.

He was talking to Mrs. Sun and Bao Suyun about the argument by the pond in the morning.

Yang Ruoqing squinted her eyes and listened for a while, then smiled and said nothing.

But Liu Shi became more and more annoyed as she talked, her face turned red.

"What a bunch of stupid women with long hair and short knowledge. Have you forgotten about the flood that year? They really forget to eat but not to fight! Don't scream when the water floods to the door, it will be too late!"

Mrs. Sun and Bao Suyun also shook their heads again and again, especially when they thought about the flooding back then, their faces were filled with sorrow.

"Flooding is no joke, we'd better take precautions," Bao Suyun said.

Sun said: "That's what we think. We don't have much farm work in our family, but some people have a lot of farm work, so they don't think so. They save their luck and want to spare more time to do some work in the fields. , and I don’t want to put effort and energy on this.”

"What's the matter with this? The people who go to strengthen the embankment have three meals a day. In the morning, there are enough white flour steamed buns and corn flour steamed buns. There are meat and vegetables at noon, and there is a supper in the evening," Mrs. Liu said while wagging her fingers. Chi-chi, chi-chi, said while calculating.

"Based on this calculation, how much rations have been saved, and the food is still good, those people are really stupid!"

The Taoist temple is off-season these days, Yang Huaming and Yang Yongzhi are not working in the Taoist temple, they are all transferred to pick the river embankment.

If Yang Huaming hadn't taken up a spot, Mrs. Liu would have been eager to go, the big pot of rice would be delicious!

The Lius talked to each other for a while, and suddenly realized that Yang Ruoqing had been listening quietly the whole time, and hadn't commented yet!

"Qing'er, why don't you say a few words?" Mrs. Liu stopped talking and asked Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Ruoqing leaned on the stool, stroking her belly, feeling lazy.

"It's more interesting to hear from you!"

"Oh, that's not okay, you have to say a few words." Liu said.

Her fart and butt moved to the vicinity of Yang Ruoqing with the stool, "Qing'er, aren't you annoyed at all about this? Those people speak very badly!"

Yang Ruoqing smiled, "One person opens his mouth, what's so annoying about that?"

"It doesn't matter what they complain about behind their backs, as long as there is someone in the family, we don't care about the rest!"

"But those words are really ugly..." Liu said again.

"Don't listen to it if it sounds bad!" Yang Ruoqing said lightly.

"But I have ears, so I can hear it even if I don't want to." Liu said again.

"Then let the left ear go in and the right ear go out!"

Yang Ruoqing then laughed and said that gossiping behind her back was the last stubbornness of those village women, and it was also their happiness.

"Qing'er, you have such a good attitude. If I were you, I wouldn't be able to sit still. I will definitely catch the tongue-twister and give him a good lesson." Liu said unwillingly.

Yang Ruoqing gently rubbed her stomach, massaging the two little things inside.

Wen Yan smiled softly, "So fourth aunt, you are not me."

Liu was stunned.

Mrs. Sun came out to smooth things over and said, "There are those who complain behind their backs, and there are also those who are warm-hearted. Before Qing'er's father came back and said that he wanted to take care of Zhang Youfu, but Zhang Youfu said that he is a member of Changping Village. He must do his part."

"Zhang Youfu?"

Yang Ruoqing narrowed her eyes, trying to search for relevant information about this name in her mind...

Then, Mrs. Liu spoke out first: "Zhang Youfu? But that old bachelor in our village? The one with a paralyzed mother at home?"

Sun frowned: "Fourth brother and sister, don't just call him an old bachelor. This title is not good."

Mrs. Liu was delighted, "What's so good about this? He's 35 or six years old and hasn't married a wife yet. What if he's not an old bachelor?"

Mrs. Sun was at a loss for words for a while, so she had to change her words and said: "You can just say the name of the person directly. There is only one Zhang Youfu in our village."

At this moment, Yang Ruoqing also remembered who Zhang Youfu was.

A person with a weak sense of existence in the village, mother and son depend on each other.

Originally, there was no intersection with the old Yang family, but because Yang Huamei had a fight with Jiawang's wife last year and fell into the water, it was Zhang Youfu who rescued Yang Huamei.

So after that, Yang Huazhong and the others became very grateful to Zhang Youfu. Last time during the Chinese New Year, they sent some things to Zhang Youfu's family, saying it was to visit Zhang Youfu's wife.

"This Zhang Youfu is a filial son." Bao Suyun also spoke softly.

"His mother was paralyzed in bed, and he was the one taking care of her. It was really not easy to wash and scrub her." Bao Suyun added.

"A filial son is indeed a filial son, but after all, men and women are different. It would be perfect if he had a wife." Sun said.

"Take the reinforcement of the river embankment as an example. Zhang Youfu went to the river, and the old lady entrusted the aunt next door to take care of him. In the end, I have to give others benefits. It is impossible to take care of him for nothing!"

(End of this chapter)