Running with the ball in the lean years, the evil mother-in-law and the whole family regretted it

"Is this me?" Xu Daya pointed at the person who looked very similar to herself in the painting. She couldn't believe that she was smiling so happily in the painting in front of her.
"Then this is me?" Wang Xiaohua pointed at the person on Xu Daya's left, with the same look of disbelief.

"With mother in the middle, the head of the family is immediately obvious." Zhu Xiaomei smiled.

The other two daughters-in-law nodded in agreement: "That's right, that's right."

Xu Daya pointed to the empty seat next to Wang Xiaohua: "Little sister, is this seat reserved for yourself?"

Bai Taotao nodded: "Yes. Then I will sit here holding the small bowl."

In order to add a few men who were not at home later, Bai Taotao ordered Bai Zhengwen and Bai Zhengqi to sit cross-legged in the first row.

In the second row, Ms. Bai Zhou sat in the middle, with her three sisters-in-law and herself sitting on both sides, and then their respective men stood behind the women.

"Little sister, how will you and Xiaowan be added when the time comes?" Bai Chuan asked.

Before Bai Taotao could answer, Wang Xiaohua smiled and said, "Didn't I just say that? This position belongs to my little sister. I'll just paint it when the time comes."

Bai Chuan: "What I mean is how to draw it? How can I draw it for myself? Besides, the little girl will still have to hold the small bowl when the time comes."

Bai Taotao smiled and said: "Isn't this easy? You can either look in the mirror and draw it yourself, or you can spend some money and let the painter help you draw it."

Bai Chuan: "Then it's better to spend some money and ask Mr. Painter to help you draw it. If you draw it yourself, even if you look in the mirror, you can only look at your face. It will also be difficult to draw a small bowl."

Bai Dashan nodded: "Yes, follow your second brother's advice and go find Mr. Painter to paint. After the painting is completed, it can be hung in the new house at home."

When Bai Taotao heard this, she joked: "That's just right. I'll draw two paintings and send them to you when the time comes for the warm-house reception at your new house."

It was a joke, but my family thought it was very good.

Zhu Xiaomei: "This is very good. I heard that some rich families will ask painters to paint some landscape paintings and hang them on the screens at home. I heard that it is quite good."

Bai Taotao: "Then I will also make a landscape screen for the three sisters-in-law. The sisters-in-law can put it in your own room in the courtyard."

Xu Daya hurriedly refused: "I like to grow flowers. My little sister can just give me some seeds of flowers and plants. Forget about the screen. You can paint three paintings by yourself. That will tire you out."

Bai Taotao: "What's the point? It will be several months before the new house is built. I can finish one painting in a month, just to pass the time."

Xu Daya thought for a while: "Sure, then I won't shirk it."

"Hahaha~~~" The whole family was in harmony, and everyone was smiling happily from ear to ear.

It wasn't until Grandma Tan came over and told everyone to go home quickly for dinner that everyone felt their stomachs growling with hunger.

Then, everyone quickly helped to put the paintings into the house and store them first. When the time comes to paint the remaining people, they can find workers to make a picture frame.

It rained heavily for several days in early April.

Fortunately, when the villagers' wheat was ripe, the weather finally cleared up.

When the weather clears after the rain, it is a good time for a bumper harvest.

While welcoming the joy of the harvest, the villagers are waiting for the busy work of spring planting.

After the wheat harvest, they would plow the land immediately, then release water to cultivate the fields, just in time for the rice seedlings to be transplanted.

Bai Taotao also started to get busy.

On the one hand, he had to purchase food from the villagers for Chen Youyi, and then arrange for manpower to deliver it to the border.

At the same time, you should always pay attention to the progress of the garden you are creating. Bai Taotao planted many fruit trees in the garden.

One or two cherries, apples, plums, lychees, and bayberries were planted, as well as several varieties of grapes.

There are two pavilions in the garden, both made of grape vines.

Later, when the grape vines sprout and grow large leaves, it will be cooler under the pavilion.

Baitaotao was originally going to put some edible fish in the small fish pond, but then she thought about the rice field fish, so there was no need to keep them in the fish pond at home.

After the workers had finished their work and left, she would try to get some good-looking koi to raise inside.

In this way, you can watch and feed the fish when you take a walk in the garden.

The time to get busy has arrived in mid-May in a blink of an eye.

Just when the villagers were preparing to hold a meeting under Li Zheng's organization to discuss raising fish in rice fields, Baitaotao was going out for the meeting when he received a letter from Chen Youyi.

Looking at the contents of the letter, Bai Taotao was so happy that she couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear.

"Dad, Mom, good news." After reading the letter, Bai Taotao immediately shared the news in her heart with her family.

"What's the good news?" The family members who were playing with Xiaowan in the yard immediately gathered around.

Bai Taotao shook the letter in her hand, and then whispered: "I just received letters from Youyi and the eldest brother and third brother. The things they are currently doing have come to an end, and there are still some small things left that are not needed. They took care of it and went to the border a few days ago.”

Bai Dashan: "So, can we go back to the county and open the shop?"

Bai Taotao shook her head: "Not yet, at least wait for about half a month, until this matter is completely completed and those people are executed, then we can be considered truly safe. It won't be too late to go back then, and it's not bad anyway. Half a month."

"Okay, I won't tell you anymore. I'm going to the village to discuss matters first. I'll leave the small bowl to you."

Bai Zhou said: "Go, go, we will watch over the small bowl, don't worry."

Bai Taotao teased the small bowl, and then hurriedly walked towards the old locust tree in the village.

By the time they got there, most of the villagers were already here, just waiting for her to come.

"Daughter-in-law Youyi is here. Wife-in-law Youyi, please come forward." Li Zheng's wife, Chen Zou, raised her hand and waved to Baitaotao, motioning her to come to the front.

Then the crowd made a way, and Bai Taotao was not polite and walked directly to the front to stand on the altar under the old locust tree with Li Zheng.

Seeing Bai Taotao coming over, Chen Lizheng said: "Before you came just now, the villagers discussed it while they were waiting for you. We have no objection to raising fish in rice fields, but if the whole village raises fish, that's it. This fry..."

Before Chen Lizheng could finish his words, Bai Taotao said: "Change, we won't raise rice field fish anymore."

"Ah~~"

"Why?"

"Didn't I say that we could raise rice field fish before? Why don't we raise them again?"

"Are you going to stop raising them all? Or are you going to raise them after your experiment confirms that there is no problem? Or are you going to choose some families to raise them?"

Seeing the villagers talking to each other, Bai Taotao hurriedly said loudly: "If we don't raise rice field fish, we will raise rice field crabs instead!" (End of this chapter)