Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 152

Xiuyao is the kind who usually doesn't say much unless it is absolutely necessary, especially when it is sensitive about the topic of the second brother.She also wanted to have a good talk with her second brother before, but she felt that she was a soft-spoken person, and the second brother was influenced by the nanny, so he didn't think much of her.I think she is a little girl, she is redundant in the family, she can't do anything, but she is just idle food.In the past two years of getting along, especially recently, the second brother always disliked her everywhere, and sometimes he ignored her when she greeted her.

Therefore, Xiuyao felt that even if she said something to her second brother, her second brother would not listen at all.At the beginning, she pinned her hopes on her mother, and if she talked to her second brother, maybe her second brother would figure it out.Who would have thought that the second brother not only failed to figure it out, but also had a stubborn temper with her mother. At this time, Xiuyao felt that she was even more unable to intervene.Even if she went, she would be pissed off, maybe the second brother thought she was gloating and watching the excitement.It's useless for father, mother, and eldest brother to explain to second brother. She is a little sister, and second brother always despises her. No matter what she says, it is superfluous.

It's better to give the second brother a little time. After a long time, the second brother lives in the mother's house and eats and drinks there. The third aunt and the others can't bear it.What's more, the food at Mammy's house is much worse than my own, and the second brother can't bear it himself.But in a few days, I'm afraid he will come back.

At that time, I will slowly explain it, and let him know that the mother and the third aunt are just using him as a weapon to deal with the mother, and they are not really treating him well at all.As long as the second brother understands this, he will be united with his family again.

As for the second brother wanting to study, Xiuyao has no objection at all, anyway, she just wants to make more money, that is, to live a good life for her family.The second elder brother studies, no matter whether he can get fame or not in the future, at least he can read and write, which is also good for the family.

She supports the matter of studying, but she can't say it out. After all, the elder brother is not good at talking, so how can the second brother listen to her.For some things, as long as he does it right, he will see it in time, and he will know who is the one who really treats him well.

On the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon raised its head. On this day, women don't do needlework, but fry scorpion beans for children.When the men go to grain farms, they have to check and tidy up their farm tools at home, preparing for two days of spring plowing.

Qin Dafu got up early in the morning, and used a dustpan to carry plant ashes and sprinkled several large circles in the yard, and sprinkled crosses in the circles.While sowing, he recited the auspicious words of praying for a good harvest.

Qin Yang got up and saw it, and ran after it excitedly, shouting as he ran: "A box full of gold and a box full of silver are not as good as a warehouse full of grain; there is something in the east, and harvest in the west. My family has a bumper harvest!"

The second day of February is the real end of the year. In order to grasp the last tail and welcome the official arrival of the new year, farmers have unique ways to celebrate.Big families can sing opera, but small families don't have that condition, and they will join forces to have some fun, such as walking on stilts.

There is no former Taoyuan, but there is a stilt team surnamed Zhou in the latter Taoyuan, which tours in nearby villages, and then everyone has fun together.Have fun, time flies, and several days pass in a blink of an eye.

The busy work of weaving gloves reached the tenth day of February, and they all stopped working to prepare for the spring plowing at home.Shopkeeper Feng sent someone to pick up the goods, and paid for the processing. Xiuyao got about four shillings, plus the money for the three of Liu's glove knitting, there was more than four slacks.

Adding the previous [-] wen, he earned [-] wen after the year, and he had to pay Lin Shuangmu [-] yuan, and he would give the [-] yuan in the second half of the year when he had a chance.With the money, Xiuyao asked her elder brother to accompany her to the market, found those traveling merchants who sold goods everywhere, and asked them to bring a letter to the Lin family for five dollars, and said that if there is any business coming here, please come here. Go to Qin's house.

Two days later, Lin Guo, Lin Shuangmu's son, went to a nearby village to distribute saplings, and he turned around. Xiuyao gave him [-] yuan, and the rest was arranged in September or October. If they stopped by, Just come back and get the money.After paying the money, the Qin family thanked him again and again, and kept him for dinner, but Lin Guo refused, leaving them a bag of rapeseed, took the money and left.

It was time for spring plowing, so Qin Dafu led the children to tidy up the pigsty quickly.I also asked Qin Ergui and Qin Chan for help, built the wall of the pigsty, and re-covered the roof of the pigsty with wheat straw. I just waited for the warmer days to find acquaintances to buy a few piglets.

There was no livestock at home, and it was not easy to always borrow from others, so Qin Dafu discussed with the Liu family and directly used the money to rent the farm cattle, wooden plows, and harrows from the official family, so that he would not have to wait in line as before.In the past, the conventional route was to register the tenants of the official land without livestock, and line up to use the livestock in turn according to the amount of tax paid.

Because Qin Xian didn't come back from Nanny's house, he naturally wanted to help them with work, so Qin Ergui asked Qin Chan to come to Grandpa's house to help.There are ready-made cattle for farming, Qin Dafu supports the wooden plow, Xiuyao and Xiurong take turns to lead the livestock, and after plowing the field has to be harrowed, and Liu's leads others to use hoes, two-pronged hooks and other agricultural tools to smash the rubbish.Farmers must pay attention to the fineness of the land when farming land, and there should be no big rubbish left. When raking the land, it will basically be smashed.

The cotton field was deeply plowed last fall, but this spring it only needs to be intertilled, and this must be controlled by oneself.

After plowing the cotton field, Xiuyao asked her father and the others to plow the self-cultivated field again, because there were saplings growing in it, so they had to be extra careful.Qin Dafu was good at supporting the plow, and Qin Ye was leading the ox, so they didn't touch a single sapling, and they plowed the field quickly and well.

When Qin Sanshun saw it, he went home and said to his third aunt: "The wasteland at the eldest brother's house seems to be able to grow things."

The third aunt sneered: "I think it's disgusting, but look at those trees, they are all wilted and dead. If you grow food, you will die whatever you plant."

Qin Sanshun disagreed, "It seems to me that they are all alive. The elder brother's family is farming there. I heard that they directly rented the cattle from the official family."

The third aunt asked in surprise, "Why are they so rich?"

Qin Sanshun said: "Didn't you say that sister-in-law and the others are working at Zhou Qiang's house? You said that you are really, why are you so stupid, you can't follow to work? People start working on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and you still say that people are poor and work hard , Now let’s see if they are making money.”

The third aunt said angrily: "Are you relying on me? It's not that I haven't asked about it, but those daughters-in-law are very tight-lipped, and they won't say anything about what they do, let alone how much money they earn. What can I do?"

Qin Sanshun was in a hurry, "You said that you are sometimes so shrewd, and there are ready-made people in our house, you don't know how to ask?"

The third aunt wondered: "Can Er Xian know? I asked him, and he said he didn't go to work, so he didn't know very well." When she visited the house in the first month of the lunar year, she went to check it out, but she didn't find anything.Later she asked Erxian and Xiuli, but she didn't find anything. At first, she thought that Mrs. Liu was doing needlework as before. Everyone knew about it, and there was nothing she could do about it. They couldn't do it, and they didn't want it.Now hearing what Qin Sanshun said, she felt that there was something wrong with it, which she had ignored before.

She snorted, "I'll go tell my second sister-in-law and mother."

Qin Sanshun said: "By the way, you can tell mother by the way, ask her to go to elder brother and ask elder brother to lead the animals to give us the land and plow." Using the cattle of elder brother's family, there is no need to rent grain from the family, mother is sure agreed.

The third aunt happily went to the main room.

In the evening of that day, Qin Dafu and others were still busy in the fields, and Liu took Xiurong home to cook.

Mrs. Zhang rushed in in a hurry, and said to Mrs. Liu: "Da Yeniang, you really eat alone."

Mrs. Liu is washing clothes, and everyone's clothes are covered with dust when they go to the ground. Mrs. Liu likes to be clean, so she must wash them clean every day.The children were also very tired, so she tried to do as much as possible to let them rest.

Seeing Mrs. Zhang rushing in, she didn't panic and said, "Mother, what are you talking about?"

Mrs. Zhang stood in front of her with her hips akimbo, and asked, "Did you go to Zhou Qiang's house to do needlework?"

Liu Shi said: "Do anything, and do what others tell you to do."

Mrs. Zhang said angrily: "You are still lying, I have already found out, what kind of gloves are you going to weave? .”

Mrs. Liu was really afraid that Mrs. Zhang and her two sister-in-laws would make trouble with jealousy, so she told Zhang Guifang to keep her a secret, and told the children not to show their mouths at the nanny's house, lest they come in and get mixed up. .

Liu said: "Mother, no matter what you do, it is arranged by Zhou Qiang's wife, and I can't control it."

Zhang was so angry that she sneered again and again, "You, you, you still keep it from me, make it up again." She was so angry that she kicked a small bench next to her away, and hit the base of the wall with a "bang".

Xiurong ran out quickly and shouted: "Nurse, what are you doing? You are angry and go to my aunt to vent your anger. People are looking for me and not you."

Mrs. Zhang scolded: "You still think I'm easy to deceive, right? Your second brother said that you made those gloves. The Feng family bought them from you, and Zhang Guifang just provided a place. You say you These stupid things, let Zhang Guifang make money and don’t let us make money. If you go to my place, don’t I make firewood? Why don’t I make money for firewood? Can’t I find someone to weave gloves? Let the good things go to Zhang Guifang? You are a foodie, you let other people make money but not your own mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and you gave away a lot of money to others."

The more Mrs. Zhang talked, the angrier she became, and the more she talked, the more distressed she became. Qin Xian said that the money for knitting gloves was twelve cash, Xiuyao received four, Zhang Guifang two, and the female worker a pair of six cash.In addition, Zhang Guifang provided a place, and there was seven cash a day for firewood, tea, lamps, oil, and so on.

When Mrs. Zhang heard this, she was about to explode, her eyes were so red that she was about to bleed.The boss is making money. She thought it was just doing some needlework, and it was a hundred dollars a month at most.I didn't expect it to be so much, and I took it home for a few pennies.A while ago, she said that Daye's medicine fee was three hangs, but she thought it was owed, but it turned out to be paid in cash!
She was so angry that her eyeballs were going to explode!
Seeing that she was crazy, Xiurong ran out quickly, wanting to go to the field to call her father and the others to come back quickly.As a result, the third aunt blocked her outside the door, and said with a smile but not a smile: "Xiurong, you all have tight mouths."

Xiurong said angrily: "This is our business, we have separated long ago." She ran away after saying that.

In the yard, Mrs. Zhang was still mad with anger, gnashing her teeth, wanting to tear Mrs. Liu to pieces, "Ah, tell me, so much money, and you don't want to give it to your family."

Mrs. Liu flicked the drops of water from her hands, and she said: "Mother, you only know one, not the other, you only listened to Er Xian, and he didn't go to work, what does he know? It's just a little bit of listening." Feng thought it was raining. One, the Feng family appointed Qiang Zi's house. What is the relationship between the Feng family and the Zhou family? Is it better than ours? Don't forget, in the past, embroidered insoles were all embroidered by Gui Fang. Two, why didn't I come to you? You should think about it yourself, we have to be quiet when we go to work, if you go, pick this problem, say that is not right, mutter all day, everyone don't do it alive."

Mrs. Zhang turned pale with anger, "Who is muttering? You think no one else is doing a good job except you, right?"

Liu said with a smile: "Mother, you misunderstood me. I don't mean that. I think some people are too narrow-minded. They only think about themselves and don't care about others. They will definitely make trouble. I don't dare to take risks. If something goes wrong , Involving others, how can this be counted? I can't afford it."

Mrs. Zhang seemed to distrust her both in and out of what she said, and was so angry that she didn't know what to say, pointing to Mrs. Liu and said, "You can do it, you can do it, I'll let Dafu come back and talk."

Mrs. Liu glanced at her, picked up the wooden basin, and poured the water out towards the gap in the south wall by the courtyard gate. The third aunt and the second aunt were looking in, but they were splashed straight.The gray water for washing clothes was mixed with plant ash, which was salty, astringent and had an indescribable pungent smell, which made the two of them retch while leaning against the wall.

Mrs. Liu saw the two people through the gaps in the branches, and said with a smile: "Oh, his second lady and third lady, why don't you come in and what are you doing outside? Our wall has never been built, and we are used to splashing water, really , Come in and wipe it off."

Those two people were so embarrassed, they hurriedly said a few words perfunctorily and went to change their clothes.

Mrs. Liu turned to Mrs. Zhang and said, "Mother, although Xiuyao came up with the idea of ​​weaving gloves, we have no control over it. You have to ask Guifang."

Mrs. Zhang snorted: "Okay, I'll go ask her. But I'll tell you first, don't make trouble at that time. In addition, I have something else. Your family rented farm cattle, and we will use them together. We will use them later. Let him Er Dada come over and lead the cattle."

Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "Why not? Anyway, the animals belong to the government, and whoever pays will take them around. We rented them for three days, and this is the last day. The government has a rule that they must be fed concentrated feed. Mother, don't forget. I asked Daye to go to Lizheng's house to say hello, so I won't send it off, but take it directly to mother." She went to work without worrying about Mrs. Zhang.

If it was in the past, Mrs. Liu would take the initiative to partner with her parents-in-law's family when she rented an animal, but now Mrs. Zhang wants to get Xiuqin to exchange marriages, and then asks Xiuyao to go to the family on Tuesday, and now she is instigating Erxian and her husband. Make trouble by yourself.If she wanted to use the livestock there, she would be too troublesome, and she was not short-hearted, so naturally she refused.

Mrs. Zhang didn't expect that she rushed in in a hurry, and the eldest daughter-in-law dealt with her so tepidly, which really pissed her off.But she didn't make any moves, so she couldn't help but feel a little regretful that she wanted to separate the family at that time, and hated Liu's shrewdness, so she insisted on finding witnesses to separate the family.Otherwise, if I ask to be together again now, my son and daughter-in-law will not dare to say anything.But I found someone to prove it and divided the family. If I continue to do that, I will go back on my word and let others poke my spine.She went out angrily, and went north to Zhou Qiang's house to ask Zhang Guifang about weaving gloves.

When Xiurong, Qin Dafu and others came back, Mrs. Zhang had already been pissed off by Mrs. Liu. Mrs. Qin asked a few times, Mrs. Liu let them eat as if nothing happened.She has practiced it in the past few years. To deal with her mother-in-law, you have to take advantage of her weaknesses, step on her pain points, and use your own magic weapon.The Liu family's magic weapon is to leave the house completely when the family is separated, and everything the family earns will be their own in the future.If you, Mrs. Zhang, want it, then you can separate the family, and after dividing the family, you will take turns to take care of the elderly. If you want to just come to the big house to ask for things to show your prestige without dividing the family, that is impossible.

Because of family work, Mrs. Liu added vegetables for them, including a small pot of scrambled eggs.This is not when there is a big family, and everyone eats well, and no one grabs it.Qin Ye and Xiuqin stopped picking up eggs after eating two chopsticks, but ate cabbage, spinach and pickles.Xiurong and Xiuyao are also sensible, and they will let others, even Qin Yang will not eat after two bites, saying that he will eat it for his father and brother.

Therefore, a small pot of eggs was left in the end. Liu Shi followed Zhang's example and divided them among them so that they had to eat them.The same is divided, but the motivation is different, one is afraid of eating more, and the other is afraid that they will eat less.

After eating, Xiuyao and Qin Yang also picked up some suitable pebbles, which can be used as flints and put in the scythe when they are smashed.Xiurong and Xiuqin washed up, Xiuxian went to finish the work of digging the pigsty, and Xiuyao asked Qin Ye to help them make flint.

Mrs. Liu said to Qin Dafu: "Let's go to Father's place for a walk. I'm too busy these days, so I haven't gone. Today, Mother came over to talk for a while, let's go for a walk."

(End of this chapter)