Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Gossip
"Qing'er, hurry up, come and sit in the fire barrel, it's so warm in here, it's so hot that fourth aunt's feet are itching to death."

As soon as Mrs. Liu saw Yang Ruoqing, she felt that she had met a bosom friend, and her gestures were cute like a beckoning cat.

Yang Ruoqing originally smiled and said hello, holding the hot tea in one hand, dragging the stool to the side of the fire barrel with the other, and stuffing her feet and shoes into the fire barrel.

Mrs. Liu became impatient, "We all took off our shoes here, why don't you take them off?"

Yang Ruoqing smiled and said, "Fourth Aunt, you have athlete's foot, I'm afraid I'll catch your athlete's foot!"

Subconsciously, Mrs. Liu wanted to reach out and pat Yang Ruoqing's arm. Seeing that she was holding a bowl of hot tea in her hand, she withdrew her hand and only scolded Yang Ruoqing with a smile: "You unlucky child, you are talking nonsense, Fourth Aunt's feet are fine!"

"Fourth Aunt, your feet are itchy because you have athlete's foot. If you don't believe me, you can ask my mother and my fifth aunt to see if they are so hot that they itch in the grooves of their feet!"

Mrs. Liu didn't believe it, so she turned to look at Mrs. Sun and Bao Suyun.

Sun said truthfully: "I really don't itch."

Bao Suyun also nodded, "I don't have that kind of situation either, fourth sister-in-law, are you a little itchy? Or is it very itchy?"

Mrs. Liu wanted to say, 'It's so itchy that I wish I could plan that piece of meat with a plane'.

When the words came to her mouth, Liu changed her words: "I'm fine too, if you don't pay attention to it, it won't feel itchy anymore..."

"Fourth brother and sister, you still don't pay attention. Since you sat in for a while, you have been rubbing all over the place. I am worried that you will scratch the skin of your feet."

Mrs. Sun actually said this out of concern, but Mrs. Liu's words undoubtedly sounded like a supplementary knife.

"Sister-in-law three, how could I have it? You made a mistake!"

Sun was stunned for a moment, the two of them's feet were in the fire barrel, Suyun didn't sit up, Qing'er just sat up, the four siblings had been rubbing their left and right feet against each other earlier, causing Sun's feet to keep moving to the side shrink.

"Fourth aunt, athlete's foot is not something to be shamed, so don't argue with that guy until you blush and have a thick neck!" Yang Ruoqing said with a smile, and covered the old clothes on her lap again.

"You insist on washing your feet twice a day, changing two pairs of socks, and eating less spicy food. When the time is right, ask Brother Wangsheng to ask for some ointment to wipe the grooves of your feet. Don't pick or scratch, and it will improve soon."

Yang Ruoqing's suggestion just made Mrs. Liu curl her lips, and she didn't seem to appreciate it.

Yang Ruoqing chuckled, and didn't expect Liu Shi to appreciate her. She was probably annoyed at the moment, feeling that she had exposed her fault.

But Yang Ruoqing had a trick to dispel Liu's unhappiness in an instant.

"Fourth aunt, I didn't go to the fifth room for dinner at noon, do you have anything new to tell me?"

That's right, there are three coups.

One, use food to please Mrs. Liu.

Second, gossip with Mrs. Liu.

Third, ask Mrs. Liu for gossip.

Yang Ruoqing had already tried these three methods countless times, they were all tried and tested.

Well, no, as soon as Mrs. Liu heard that Yang Ruoqing was inquiring about gossip with her, she immediately had no time to be ashamed and annoyed about the athlete's foot.

"Haha, Qing'er still understands me, hehe, Fourth Aunt really has something to do here, and I don't even bother to tell your mother and Fifth Aunt, so I'll just wait for you to come over so I can tell you!"

Seeing Liu's face offering treasures, Yang Ruoqing quickly grabbed the white sugar peanuts on the table and brought them to Liu: "Come on, let's talk about it after a bite."

Mrs. Liu casually grabbed a handful and put it in the palm of her hand, bit two, and then told Yang Ruoqing: "It's about your aunt's house, you haven't heard of it yet, have you?"

Yang Ruoqing's eyes widened: "My aunt's house? Is it the past few days or the past?"

If it's from the past, it's fried leftovers, just chew it a little bit and it's all good!
Mrs. Liu glared at Yang Ruoqing, as if her question was too contemptuous.

"Your fourth aunt and I will tell you the news about those old sesame seeds and rotten millet? It must be something new, big news that has just come out and is still hot!"

"Mother, Fifth Aunt, do you know?" Yang Ruoqing turned her head and asked Mrs. Sun and Bao Suyun again.

The two shook their heads together.

Mrs. Liu chuckled and said, "I've already said it. I have to wait for you to come and talk about it. How could I tell them in advance? That would be no fun!"

Yang Ruoqing took a sip of tea, and urged with a smile, "That's it, everyone is here, Fourth Aunt, so don't be foolish and hurry up and talk!"

Mrs. Liu nodded, licked her lips, suppressed her excitement and asked them: "Tomorrow will be Chinese New Year, but Dabai and Hongmei from the old Wang family haven't come back to the village yet, don't you know?"

Bao Suyun smiled and said, "Sister-in-law Si, I thought it was a big deal, I know, two days ago I went to deliver food to our mother and met Meier, she also talked about the time when the children went home for the New Year, she said Dabai sent a message early on saying that he won’t be back until the Chinese New Year, saying that the business in the shop is good during the twelfth lunar month, so he can’t leave.”

Mrs. Liu pouted, with a look of disbelief.

"Come on, he said that if the business is good, then the business is good? Qing'er's restaurants will close on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and they are still running big restaurants. How much trouble can their small shops the size of a palm cause?"

"Hey, Fourth Aunt, I really need to clarify this point." Yang Ruoqing said.

"In the twelfth lunar month, there are many more people going to the market on the street every day than usual, and there is no shortage of people in all kinds of shops, especially the early shops like restaurants, tea houses, etc., which are related to eating, drinking, and lazing. It is the golden period of the year, Dabai Although the shop is small, it sells things that ordinary people can afford."

"Qing'er, since you said that, why did you close the restaurant soon? Why don't you do business for a few more days?" Liu asked back.

Yang Ruoqing raised her eyebrows: "At my level, opening a restaurant is just for fun, and it doesn't matter if you earn more or less."

Liu was stunned.

Well, this question is really a nouveau riche who ran to compete with the God of Wealth for more money.

"All right, pretend I didn't ask." Liu licked his lower lip, and then said later.

"Then Dabai and Hongmei said they would come back tomorrow, so that's fine, but Xiao Hei, who is not busy with opening a shop and earning a lot of money, didn't come back either. Zimei'er is getting impatient now, so Wang Hongquan called Wang Hongtao, his father and his sons. , divided two groups of people, one group went to the teahouse, and the other group went down the mountain to Xu Yuanming's hometown in the town to look for it!"

The news brought by Mrs. Liu really surprised the three people in the room.

Sun said: "I just said it was weird. Two days ago when Mianmian got married, Xiao Hei didn't come to the banquet. When I asked Meier, she said that Xiao Hei's master hadn't had a holiday yet."

Bao Suyun said: "It's almost the Chinese New Year, why do you want to let Xiao Hei back? Qing'er, do you want someone to guard the teahouse during the Chinese New Year?"

Both Sun and Liu looked at Yang Ruoqing in unison, because the teahouse belonged to her, and Xu Yuanming was just hired by her to help manage the teahouse.

(End of this chapter)