Yoshida Mii

Chapter 344 Knowledge
Dong Bao and Lin Shi came over at noon to deliver the written Spring Festival couplets to Lin Fu and Aunt Qiuxia. There are students in the family, and they want to enjoy Lin Shi's luck, and hope that their children will also be able to pass the examination as a scholar in the future.

When they passed by the door of Song's house, the whole family heard the noise. When they looked up, the yard was already torn into a ball, and they could only shake their fists.

Wanwan was more than two years old, and this was the first time she saw a quarrel. She was so frightened that she quickly buried her head in Lin Shi's arms, covering her ears with her little hands. Lin Shi coaxed her softly, and quickened her pace towards Lin's house.

However, at this moment, Second Aunt Song had already seen them, and immediately called out, "Dongbao, Dashi! Come on, let's ask Master Juren to end this lawsuit for us!" As she spoke, she ran out to hold him back. Dong Bao.

Of course Dong Bao wouldn't care about such a bad thing, the village chief wouldn't come if he didn't see him!

Song Bai saw Dong Bao and Lin Shi, and immediately turned pale with fright, standing there wishing he could shrink into the cracks in the ground, not daring to say a word.

"We are juniors, so we don't dare to take care of the elders' affairs!" Dong Bao smiled and waved his hands, pulling Lin Shi to run to the Lin's house, and behind them, the servant Lao Niu and his wife they just bought hurriedly stopped Song who was about to pull Dong Bao Second aunt.

The angry Second Aunt Song stomped her feet, cursed and went back.

After arriving at Lin's house, the crying and cursing from the next door was still heard, even if she was sitting in the house, she could hear it clearly, Wanwan was so frightened that she hid in Lin Shi's arms and dared not come out, this was the first time she had seen such a scene.

"How are you going to live!" Dong Bao frowned and said, "Father and mother, now that the whole son is married, you should live with us."

Both Lin Fu and Aunt Qiuxia had the same idea. Who wouldn't want to live with their son? It's just that they cared about Dongbao and didn't want to bring it up. Now that Dongbao has proposed it, everyone is happy.

Lin Shi expanded the yard to the west by another half acre, and built a few rooms there for the servants to live in. When Wanwan grew older, he built a few more wing rooms, or bought the wasteland behind and expanded it into The yard is built to live in a house.

Old man Lin looked in the direction of the Song family next door and sighed: "Every year, I will not live in peace every year!"

Dong Bao had already heard that the Song family was arguing all over the distribution of the ten mu of land.In her opinion, it was just a few acres of land passed down from her ancestors, and she was so noisy that she wanted to start a fight. It was not an exaggeration to say that the Song family was worthless.

As long as Song Yu and Song Bai have a capable man, there are so many unowned wasteland in Tagouji, and working hard to reclaim a few acres, working hard for a few years, and tending to the mature land, isn't it a fortune?

There are not many families with little land in the village, just like the Song family, with more people from generation to generation, and the land will always be so little, and the descendants can only beg for food.

Over the years, Dongbao has bought a lot of land sporadically, totaling about [-] acres, and this year Lin Shi was admitted to Juren, so there is no need to pay taxes on these lands, which saves a lot of expenses. Just relying on these lands, their whole family can live a lifetime without worrying about food and clothing, but no one in this big family has the idea of ​​touching her land, and everyone is doing their work seriously, which is why the Lin family The reason why the Song family is going downhill is that they can live a prosperous life.

In the evening, the noise of the Song family finally subsided, and some folks who watched the fun came to the Lin family to chat, saying that the two sides had agreed, and it was still the same as before. Song Yu divided four acres of land, and the remaining six acres belonged to old man Song. and Song Bai, but old man Song wants to give Song Yu ten taels of money to build a house.

In Tagouji, three taels of silver can be used to build three tile-roofed houses, which are not bad. Song Yu asked for ten taels of silver, which is equivalent to a lion opening his mouth.However, to everyone's surprise, old man Song actually agreed. Others were surprised that old man Song had so much money, but Song Yu regretted it and thought it would be less.

Old man Song didn't have that much money, but he had to wait until the beginning of spring to build a house, so he could delay it for a while.His idea was to sell the two pigs in the pigsty, and collect enough taels of silver to give to Song Bai. If it didn't work, he would sell all Qiaoxian's jewelry, and Song Yu had to be sent away anyway, otherwise the family would have no peace. .

Most of Qiaoxian's jewelry was used for Song Bai, and some of it was used for Yang Xiaohong's betrothal gift. The rest, Mr. Song and Mrs. Huang planned to leave it to Song Bai as emergency money at the bottom of the box. Up to now, they have to use this little money.

Two days later, the Chinese New Year was coming soon, Dong Bao took Wanwan and his servants to the Lin's house to help pack things, and planned to let Lin Fu and the others move to their place before the Chinese New Year, and spend this year at their house.When passing by the gate of Song's house, Mrs. Huang was sitting at the gate of the yard with her sleeves wrapped around her sleeves, chatting with an elderly lady.

Over the years, Mrs. Huang has aged a lot, her dark and thin face is full of wrinkles, her hair has also turned grey, and she is so thin and small that she can almost shrink to a bench when sitting there.

Seeing Dong Bao bringing a group of people over, Huang's voice immediately raised a lot, and scolded the old lady next to him: "The two rabbit kings and eight turtle grandchildren from the second family's family always take a big bowl when it's meal time. Come to scoop up the vegetables in the jar, you have a big bowl, you are not afraid to overwhelm them!"

When Song Bai got married, there was a lot of leftover food on the dinner table, and the Huang family kept it in the water tank in the yard, which could last for ten days and half a month. After the two families separated, they cooked their own meals. The second aunt's family inevitably had the idea of ​​taking advantage, so they sent Da Mao Er Mao to scoop vegetables into the water tank.

When the grandson came to ladle the vegetables, Mr. Song and Mrs. Huang couldn't drive them away. They could only let them ladle the vegetables and sulk themselves.In the past two days at Lin's house, Dong Bao has been listening to the neighbors yelling and scolding, and he is tired of hearing it.

In her opinion, it's just two bites of food!Wouldn't it be a pity if you couldn't finish eating and throw it away?Even if Mrs. Huang hates Second Aunt Song, what about Song Yu?Isn't it her own son?Aren't Da Mao and Er Mao her grandsons?She can scold her son and grandson like this for eating her two dishes, so it's no wonder that Song Yu and Da Mao Er Mao have no respect and affection for their old couple.

When passing by the door of the Song family, Huang was still loudly saying: "Look at my clothes, I have been wearing them for five or six years! I haven't made new clothes for many years, and the ones who celebrate the New Year are also like this... Raising these little ones What's the use of it? When they grow up and their wings harden, they will forget that they have eaten your food, and they will not remember you when they are rich!"

Dong Bao continued to walk forward without even looking at Huang Shi. She hadn't sent the Song family an annual gift these years, so Huang Shi didn't have any cloth to make new clothes.Mrs. Huang didn't blame her son for being unpromising and unfilial, but she blamed her because Dong Bao, a married granddaughter, didn't give her away, so she didn't have anything to wear.

Then let her continue to wear the new clothes she doesn't have!Dong Bao sneered.

"Mother, what is that old lady talking about?" Wanwan asked softly in her arms.

Dong Bao smiled and kissed Wanwan's little cheek, and said a little louder, "The old woman is complaining that her son is incompetent and worthless, and she can't make new clothes for her during the Chinese New Year!"

"Oh!" Wanwan looked very worried, looked down at her brand new little flower jacket and little tiger-toed shoes, and felt that there were no new clothes to wear during the Chinese New Year, what a pity!

Mrs. Huang was so angry that she couldn't speak with her mouth open, and she was so blocked that she couldn't say anything. The old lady beside her couldn't hold back her laughter, so she got up quickly and said, "It's getting late, I'm going home to cook dinner." ” She ran two steps forward, greeted Dong Bao eagerly, teased Wan Wan in Dong Bao’s arms, and praised Wan Wan well.

The old lady is not stupid, the Huang family is just a poor country woman, and Dong Bao is the wife of Juren, so she knows who to curry favor with.

Quanzi and Liu Fanghua have already returned from Anzhou. Although the two of them have made their home in Anzhou, after all, their parents are in Tagou, and they still have to gather in Tagou for the New Year.Because of the addition of a new daughter-in-law, this year of the Lin family has been extremely lively. Just carrying luggage, the dozen or so people have been busy for two or three days.

On the morning of the 27th, the sky began to snow heavily. By the [-]th, the icicles under the eaves had formed more than a foot long. When the old man spoke, Quanzi smiled and hugged Wanwan to smash the ice under the eaves with a bamboo pole.

Because the ground was covered with thick snow, when the slivers of ice fell on the snow, very few people were broken. Quanzi took a ruler and handed the long slivers of ice to Wan Wan in his arms, and said with a smile, "Hey, You taste it, this ice is sweet!"

Wanwan tilted her head, looked at the little uncle with a malicious face, and said in a childish voice: "Uncle is lying, ice is not sugar, how can it be sweet?"

Quanzi stomped his feet and sighed, feeling that the little girls nowadays are so smart that they can't be coaxed anymore, but he didn't give up, and coaxed with a smile: "Try it, it's really sweet!"

Before Wanwan really stretched out her tongue to lick the ice, Liu Fanghua slapped Quanzi on the head, put her hands on her hips and cursed angrily, "How old are you? You still bully Wanwan!" Then she smiled apologetically to Dongbao: "Sister-in-law, he's just like this, don't be as knowledgeable as him!" He snatched Wanwan from Quanzi's arms, hugged it to Aunt Qiuxia, and gave Quanzi a look.

Seeing that no one in the room glared at him angrily, Quanzi curled his lips, and hurried to Old Man Lin to show his presence.

Before the New Year’s Eve dinner, old man Lin insisted on going to the old house to set off a firecracker. Lin Shi and Dong Bao were afraid that the road would be slippery. Old man Lin fell, so he took his son and took the firecrackers to the old house, so that the child would be fine. Just treat Wanwan as a toy when you do it, and when they come back after firing the cannon, they will cook dumplings.

There are still snowflakes in the sky, and every step on the ground is a deep footprint. At this moment, every household in the village is setting off firecrackers before the New Year’s Eve dinner. The sound of firecrackers is crackling, and the whole village is filled with the smell of gunpowder and green smoke of firecrackers. .

Dong Bao hates the smell, but it's a pity that setting off firecrackers is a tradition, and the government here won't issue an official document banning whips. It's only a few days a year, and Renren passes.

When the three of them walked to the door of Song's house, they saw a group of four people standing at the door of Song's house, like a couple with a son and a daughter, looking inside, hesitant.

Seeing Dong Bao and his party coming, the leading middle-aged woman hurriedly asked: "Girl, let me ask you something, is this the Song family from Tagouji?"

(End of this chapter)