The peasant's daughter-in-law of crossing

Chapter 24

When Zhaodi saw Yingniang came back, she felt even more ashamed.She lowered her head to pickle pickles, stuffed the dried mustard into the jar, and added salt layer by layer, she was too embarrassed to look up at Yingniang and Bo Ming.

Yingniang also knew that Zhaodi was feeling uncomfortable, so she knelt down and talked to her, "Zhaodi, in fact, weaving is not a good job. You have to be disciplined by Aunt Yao every day. When you work, you have to worry about making mistakes. It’s better to do farm work at home instead of being scolded.”

Knowing that Yingniang was comforting her, Zhaodi raised her head and forced a smile at Yingniang, the smile she squeezed out was really ugly.

Brother Zhongping is also back now.When Zhaodi saw Zhongping, she felt nervous for a while. She put down the mustard in her hand, wiped her hands on her body, and then rubbed herself in front of Zhongping.

"What's the matter, what are you?" Seeing her like this, Zhong Ping seemed to have made a big mistake.

"I... I lost the weaving job. Aunt Yao thought I... thought I was stupid, so she drove me back before lunch." Zhao Di felt that she had done something wrong, so she thought It's better to admit your mistake first, but don't wait for Zhongping to ask her.

Zhongping was startled when he heard it, and it took him a while to realize what Zhaodi was saying, "Oh, just throw it away. No one in the family used to earn this money, so they lived well."

Zhao Di seemed to be quite relaxed after hearing what Zhongping said, and she didn't mean to blame her, so she felt better, and then squatted down to pickle mustard.

Seeing that Zhaodi had relaxed a bit, Yingniang was relieved and went to the kitchen to scoop up water to drink.Yang Sanniang was cooking, and when she saw Yingniang came back, she asked cheerfully: "Yingniang, I heard from Zhaodi that you are skillful and quick-witted, and you are doing a good job of weaving. You will definitely be able to stay after half a month." .”

"Well, it should be about the same, but the salary is a bit low, only seven Wen." Yingniang drank a few sips of water, put down the ladle, and went to the stove to light the fire.

"Seven cents is already quite a lot. A big man only has nine cents after exhausting land reclamation. Boming, come in and let me ask you, what did you eat for lunch? Are you full?"

Bo Ming walked in and drank half a scoop of water first, "Eat steamed bread, pickled vegetables, and Chinese cabbage."

Yang Sanniang frowned after hearing this, "Why is there no good dish, is the portion enough?"

"The portion is enough, anyway, I'm full. Yingniang said that she also eats this kind of food, and she can't be picky when eating other people's food, unlike her own, where she can fry several dishes."

After Yang Sanniang picked up a plate of stir-fried green peppers with beans from the pot, she went to a small pot in the corner and took out two eggs, "I'll cook a poached egg for each of you."

Boming felt bad when he saw it. He and Yingniang were not willing to eat eggs at home. How could he and Yingniang eat alone? , let’s eat together.”

At this moment, the third uncle, Uncle Chang, ran in and said with a smile, "Mother is so biased, she even planned to cook eggs secretly for my eldest brother and sister-in-law to eat."

Yang Sanniang reached out and knocked Shuchang on the head, "What nonsense, mother is so biased, there are only six eggs left in total, there are eight people in our family, and one person can't even eat one, how can we cook it?" Even if there are eight eggs now , she was not willing to cook them all.

Shuchang hugged his head and cried out that it hurts, "If you are biased, you can be biased. Brother, when you eat poached eggs later, just give me a bite."

Yang Sanniang yelled at him, "Go, go, get out, don't make trouble."

Birming thought for a while, "Mother, it's better to cook these two into egg soup, everyone can eat a few bites."

"That's right, why did I forget, then cook egg soup." Yang Sanniang carefully knocked the eggs into the bowl, leaving some juice on the shell, and she insisted on shaking it for a long time to ensure that there was no more juice left on the shell. Drop by drop before throwing away the eggshell.

Boming suddenly remembered the matter of his mother-in-law raising chickens, so he said: "Why don't we buy some chickens to raise? The family held a banquet for me and killed all the chickens. If we don't raise chickens, we will have chickens in the future." There are no eggs to eat."

Yang Sanniang sighed, "Isn't the little money at home going to the carpenter? You won't be able to get your wages until a month later, and Yingniang won't be able to get your wages until a month and a half later. When the chicken cubs have grown up by then, I'm afraid it won't work." purchase."

Under the stove, Yingniang asked: "Can I get credit? Anyway, I will pay it back in a month."

Yang Sanniang was a little tempted, "Why don't I ask your third aunt after dinner, you can't get credit from other people's houses."

After hearing this, Boming said happily, "I'm going to make chicken coops now, and I happen to have loose wood at home." He ran to the yard, and Zhongping also helped to do it.

This dinner had egg soup and three dishes of stir-fried vegetables. Everyone had a very appetizing meal. Fortunately, Yang Sanniang knew that everyone was tired from a day's work, so she made a lot of corn pancakes so that everyone was full. Put down the bowl.

When Yang Sanniang put away the bowl, she said, "Tomorrow night, I will make you some white flour pastry. Our family hasn't eaten it for a long time."

Father Xue replied from the side: "It should have been done a long time ago, Yingniang and Zhaodi are here, Bai Mian hasn't seen you move once."

Yang Sanniang blushed when she was told by Father Xue, "It's not that I didn't do it on purpose, it's because we only have a bag of white noodles left in our house. Don't you want to save it for festivals or for guests to eat?"

Yang Sanniang went to the third aunt's house to buy chickens, Boming and Zhongping continued to make chicken coops in the yard, Father Xue was smoking a pipe, Shuchang and Jiwang were playing stone chess in the house, Yingniang and Zhaodi were burning the family's needs in the kitchen. face wash.

After Yang Sanniang bought eight chicks and came back, they all washed their faces and went back to their rooms.

Yingniang and Boming had been entangled for three consecutive nights before, and this night they just slept with their arms around each other, because they were really tired from working all day.

Unexpectedly, there was movement in Zhongping's room tonight.At first, Zhaodi still sat under the oil lamp to make clothes, but the lamp oil was too little, and it was almost burned out slowly, and there was only a faint light shining on the wick.

Zhongping had already gone to bed. Seeing that the oil lamp was dimmed to such an extent that he couldn't see clearly, he said to Zhaodi: "The light is not on anymore, don't do it, it's not worth breaking your eyes."

Zhao Di rubbed her eyes, she really felt pain in her eyes.It was too late for her to go to the kitchen to pour lamp oil, so she had to put down the half-made new clothes.

She came to the bedside to undress, Zhongping didn't look at her, but turned his face inside.When Zhaodi climbed onto the bed and fell asleep in the bed, Zhongping turned over again, facing outwards.In fact, he didn't dislike her, but felt that it would be embarrassing to sleep face to face.

Zhao Di looked at his back, sleeping very unsteadily, so she boldly asked: "You really...don't dislike me?"

In the first two nights of sleep, both of them didn't say a word, just like a dead body, tired after a long time, and then fell asleep.Zhongping didn't expect Zhaodi to ask him such a question, and he didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Seeing that Zhong Ping didn't reply for a long time, Zhaodi thought that he disliked her, so she choked up and said, "Actually...you shouldn't have kept me that day, I was ugly and stupid, and I lost all the work I got. .You could have found a woman who is much stronger than me, but your parents are late. If you regret it now, it is still too late, anyway, we don't have..."

"I don't dislike you, don't think about it." Zhongping finally spoke.

"Really?" Zhaodi didn't quite believe it. If he didn't dislike her, why would he keep ignoring her?

"Really. Although you are not good-looking, you are not ugly as you say. If you say that you are not stupid, I am actually stupid. I can only do rough work. Isn't the countryman just trying to be able to do it?" Zhongping still Talk behind her back.

When Zhaodi heard Zhongping's words, she was moved for a while. It turned out that Zhongping didn't dislike her very much, but he didn't like his elder brother like his sister-in-law.

However, she is also looking forward to getting along with Zhongping sweetly, talking and laughing like elder brother and sister-in-law, and even flirting with each other, not to mention how envious she is.

In her eyes, Zhongping looks strong and is better than his eldest brother and two younger brothers, but he is a little serious, making it hard to understand what he is thinking.

"It's still early, let's talk." Zhao Di said this sentence like a mosquito, her voice was extremely low.

Zhongping finally turned over, but the room was pitch black, and he couldn't see Zhaodi's face clearly.Since Zhaodi wants to talk to him, let's talk, he doesn't know what to say, thought about it, and said: "In a few days, the new table and chairs will be finished, and you can sit at the table and do needlework in the future." You don’t have to put the oil lamp on the window sill.”

"Well, it doesn't matter if there are new tables and chairs."

"Also, when we have a new bed, the two of us don't need to sleep so crowded." Zhong Ping said again.

"It's okay to be crowded. No, I mean... I'm not afraid of being crowded, nor..." Zhaodi didn't know how to explain.

Originally, Zhong Ping didn't think about it, but after she explained it like this, he felt a little itchy all over. He suddenly asked, "Have you had enough tonight?"

Zhaodi didn't know why Zhongping suddenly asked this, she answered honestly: "I'm full, I haven't eaten so full for a long time."

"Then do you have... the strength now?" Zhong Ping stammered a bit, and his breath became more and more uneven.

Zhaodi was very puzzled, didn't understand the meaning of Zhongping's question at all, and still replied honestly: "I should have strength. Although I am small, I have a lot of strength. I can usually carry and pick things, and..."

Before she finished speaking, Zhong Ping suddenly pressed on her body, causing her to scream in fright, and then quickly covered her mouth.

And Yingniang in the room here wants to relieve herself, because she doesn't like to put the urinal in the room, because she thinks it smells bad.In fact, this is not the main reason, she just feels a little embarrassed to urinate in front of Bo Ming, so even if she wants to urinate at night, she can only go out of the yard to go to the latrine.

Bo Ming sat up and asked, "Do you want me to accompany you? It's dark outside, are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid. Although the moon is covered by clouds, you can still find the way with the stars shining on it. Don't get up."

As soon as Yingniang came to the yard, she heard a loud "boom", which made her scream and almost lost her soul.When she regained her composure, she realized that the sound seemed to be coming from Zhaodi's room.

Immediately afterwards, Father Xue shouted from the room, "What's wrong in your room, second child?"

"Father, it's nothing...it's nothing, the bed has collapsed, and I'll prop it up right away." Zhong Ping said with a suppressed voice.

At this moment, Bo Ming also ran out with his shirt on, "Ms. Ying, what's the matter?" He thought she saw something scary.

Yingniang said in embarrassment: "It's all right, it seems that the bed in the second brother's room has collapsed."

At this time, there was a faint light in Zhongping's room, and Zhongping went to the yard to find loose wood to support the bed.Because their bed was too broken, and after a little tossing, it collapsed with a "boom".

Afraid of Zhongping's embarrassment, Boming hurriedly led Yingniang to the latrine.After leaving the yard, the two of them covered their mouths and snickered for a while.

"What are Second Brother and Zhaodi doing? Even the bed collapsed."

"It seems that I was right to ask my parents to make a new bed for them. That bed really can't sleep."

At this time, Zhaodi in the room wanted to dig into the cracks in the ground, and hurriedly put on her clothes, feeling that this face was really embarrassing.Because her house is connected with her parents-in-law's house, at this time I heard my mother-in-law say: "Well, the son I raised is not stupid, he knows he wants a woman."

(End of this chapter)