The peasant's daughter-in-law of crossing

Chapter 58

In the evening, each family cooks their own meals.When eating, Yingniang looked at Bo Ming and Ji Wang in front of her, feeling a little uncomfortable in the desertedness.

Bo Ming and Ji Wang also felt very awkward. Usually, everyone is used to eating together as a family, but at this time they really couldn't get used to it.On Zhaodi's side, they cook on a small stove, and Zhaodi and Zhongping are not used to it either.

After thinking about it, I gradually got used to it. Brothers and sisters-in-law cannot be together for a lifetime, it's just that more firewood will be wasted like now.

As he ate, Bo Ming felt that there was one thing that he needed to say to Ji Wang solemnly, "Ji Wang, in a year or two, the elder brother and the elder sister-in-law will definitely make a good relationship for you. You must not be like that. The third brother is like that. Even if there is a girl you like, you can only take it to heart, and tell me when the time comes, I will propose marriage for you, but you must never have a private relationship. The current situation of your third brother is a lesson, and you must learn from it. "

Just now Ji Wang kept his head down and ate his food. He couldn't help but blush when he heard what his elder brother said, and said: "I am still a child, so I don't want to marry so early, and I won't like any girl at will. When I get old , everything is arranged by the eldest brother and sister-in-law."

Hearing what Ji Wang said, Boming felt relieved, "That's what I said, but I didn't say that you shouldn't like the girl you like. But no matter what, you must tell me and your sister-in-law, remember?"

Ji Wang nodded obediently, "Well, I remember."

Zhaodi and Zhongping were also eating, and Zhongping said as he ate, "Zhaodi, we can cook two dishes for dinner in the future. You see, we can't finish these four dishes, and they won't taste good if we leave them for tomorrow morning." Well, it's a pity to throw it away, we have to live frugally."

Zhao Di was a little embarrassed, "When I was cooking just now, I forgot that there are only two of us eating now, so I cooked a little more."

Zhongping couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "You really can forget even this. We just separated today and have been busy for half an afternoon, but you actually forgot."

After eating, Ji Wang moved to the house he used to live in, that is, the house of Shuchang and Yinyue, and then everyone moved the sundries that were moved to each house last time back to the utility room.

After finishing all this work, Zhongping took Xiaonuan with him.Zhaodi and Yingniang were sitting together knitting.

"Sister-in-law, all these thread materials are almost finished. We have knitted a total of ten thread garments, and the head flowers are all finished. Now there is only some material left at Yinyue. Do you want to go to Ukrainian with your elder brother in a few days? State?"

Yingniang nodded and said: "Tomorrow I will teach Yinyue and help her prepare her materials. Boming and I will go to Wuzhou."

The next morning, Yingniang came to Yinyue.Because there is no yard here, there are only two low houses.At this time, Shuchang took out thick sticks from the firewood he had distributed yesterday, and stuck them around the front of the house, making a fence.

Yinyue sat at the base of the wall basking in the sun, still holding scissors to cut silk.The two of them saw Yingniang coming from a distance, and they called sister-in-law in unison.

Yingniang smiled slightly, walked over and asked: "Yinyue, are you cutting these silk cloths to make hair flowers? You already know how to do it?"

Yinyue shook her head, "I see this silk cloth looks good, so I want to make a suit of clothes."

"Yinyue, I'm going to Wuzhou in a few days. How about I teach you how to make hair flowers and knitting clothes first? I'll help you do it too, so I can finish it earlier and go back to exchange for some money."

Yinyue blushed and nodded, handed the scissors to Yingniang, and watched Yingniang how to make a head flower.Yinyue is also very clever, she learns very quickly, with Yingniang helping her to do it together, she can make several flowers in a short time.

Yingniang saw that she had learned how to make hair flowers, so she asked her to go to the house to get out the thread materials and teach her how to weave a sweater.This one is more difficult, Yinyue learned very slowly, and only learned simple flat stitch this morning.

Shuchang had already inserted the fence, and then went to the town, because he wanted to buy a hairpin and a silver bracelet for Yinyue.

When Yingniang came to their house again in the afternoon, she saw that Yinyue had a hairpin on her head and a silver bracelet on her wrist, Yingniang couldn't help laughing and said, this young couple is really anxious.

Seeing Yingniang helping her like this, Yinyue was very happy, and felt that she had misunderstood her sister-in-law for not treating her as a family member, so now she is very serious about learning.

With Yingniang's help in the past few days, Yinyue has finished the head flowers and thread clothes.Yingniang and Boming started to prepare for the trip to Wuzhou. The ox cart that Boming made was not bad, and it drove smoothly with the ox borrowed from his uncle's house.

When they arrived in Wuzhou, this time Yingniang and Boming lived in the inn, and they would not disturb Aunt Yao's house again.When Aunt Yao saw that they spent money to stay in the hotel, she even complained a few times, saying that they were old acquaintances, why are they being so polite.

Yingniang knew what Aunt Yao was thinking, but this was the Li family, they were embarrassed to know each other.

When Yingniang showed these thread clothes to Aunt Yao, Aunt Yao held them in her hands and touched them carefully.In fact, Yingniang wanted to say that many of them were weaved by Zhaodi, and Zhaodi's craftsmanship was no worse than hers.

Aunt Yao took these sweaters to find her sisters, and sure enough, as Aunt Yao expected, they all liked them very much and wanted to buy them all.The price is also negotiable, Aunt Yao only said a suitable price, [-] Wen per piece, in fact, this price is really fair, after all, it takes time and effort, these ten pieces have been woven for two or three months, and the craftsmanship is not bad.

Unexpectedly, they thought the price was quite cheap. One person had to buy three or four pieces, and the goods were not enough!Aunt Yao also asked them for their opinions, asking if this kind of thread clothes would sell well, and they all said that they would definitely sell well, and if they couldn't sell, they would buy them all.

Afterwards, Aunt Yao took Yingniang to a few shops to ask the shopkeepers, but unexpectedly, the shopkeepers also agreed, thinking that this kind of thread should be knitted more.With the approval of so many people, Yingniang knew in her heart that she must weave more clothes and earn more money in the future.

Li Changan heard Aunt Yao say that Yingniang and the young couple are quite capable and rely on their own hands to earn money. Li Changan finally took a different look at the two of them, and was able to talk to them a few words.

Listening to what Li Changan said inside and outside, he is quite well-connected in this area.Yingniang really wanted to ask him if he knew the magistrate of Luan County, she still remembered Liang Zi begging her for help.But she really couldn't ask, and felt that the Li family was already troublesome enough.Just now he was willing to talk to you and said a few words to you, but you have the cheek to beg for a relationship?Sakura Niang really couldn't do it.I was afraid that not only would they not want to help, but they would even never want to see the two of them again.Therefore, when she and Bo Ming left Li's house, they didn't say a word.

When Yingniang brought home more than 3000 Wen coins and a dozen large bags of thread materials, Zhaodi was quite frightened.I was intimidated by so much money, and I was also intimidated by so much thread.

"Sister-in-law, how many clothes do we have to weave with so many threads? Can we finish?" Zhao Di flipped through the threads, they were all in various colors, "If we finish all these threads, how much money will we earn? ?”

Yingniang smiled and said, "Are you still afraid of money? As long as we work hard, we will definitely make a lot of money. It's just that you have to take care of your children and you don't have so much free time. Yinyue has just learned how to weave, and her hands are slow. .I can’t weave by myself. I wondered if I should recruit some female day laborers.”

Zhao Di was shocked and said, "Hiring short-term workers? Sister-in-law, do you want to be the landlord?"

"Who said that a landlord must be a landlord if you hire short-term workers? As long as you can earn money and work quickly, you can hire as many people as you want. I'm afraid I won't be able to sell them, but I also have confidence in this." Yingniang was encouraged by Aunt Yao. She is really confident.

"Sister-in-law, how many female laborers are you planning to recruit? Also, we have offended everyone in the village. I guess they don't care about it." The reason why Zhaodi said this was because she took her child out to play in the afternoon. Few women are willing to talk to her.Although this is a matter between Yinyue and Shuchang, they are all members of the Xue family, so they will be affected to some extent.

In fact, Yingniang also thought of this, and said: "As many as you can recruit, maybe they are willing to come here for the sake of money. After a long time, everyone gets along well, and they also earn money. Maybe I'm too embarrassed to talk about Yinyue and Shuchang. Yinyue can't never come out to see people, it's good for her."

"Should they be recruited to work in our yard?" Zhao Di thought that many people were crowded in this yard, and thought it was not good.

Ying Niang thought for a while, "When they first started learning, they must be in our yard. After they learn it, they can bring the materials home and make it. Don't worry, they won't recruit many people, just five or six people. "

Zhaodi laughed and said, "Sister-in-law, you can be regarded as the shopkeeper now."

"Look at what you said, if you do such a small job, you can be regarded as the big shopkeeper! After we earn 10,000+ pennies, I am really happy to call you the big shopkeeper. But I believe that there will be a day when we will wait and see." Bar!"

Zhaodi was frightened to death when she heard that, "How much is 10,000+ Wenqian? How can I count clearly? My hands are cramping!"

Zhong Ping said beside him: "You are really serious. How can you earn 10,000+ Wenqian? You can't even hear my sister-in-law joking with you."

Yingniang secretly laughed in her heart, one day, she will earn so much money, Zhongping will be eye-opened and no longer think she is joking.Not only Zhongping thinks that Yingniang is joking, but even Bo Ming thinks that Yingniang is joking.

After Yingniang distributed the money to Zhaodi, she sent Yinyue's money to her family.After arriving at the door of Yinyue's house, Yingniang was stunned, because she found that the fence was missing, and then heard Yinyue crying inside the house.

When Yinyue saw Yingniang, she burst into tears, "Sister-in-law, I don't know some unscrupulous person who secretly pulled down the fence of my house last night. They really don't want me and Shuchang to live a happy life!"

Yingniang was also very angry when she heard that, she thought it must be the person who is usually the most jealous of her family, "Yinyue, don't cry, the more you cry, the happier they will be, and they think they have knocked you down. If you If they are happy and don’t care, they feel bored and discouraged.”

Yinyue stopped crying when Yingniang handed out four hundred Wen to Yinyue. She and Shuchang didn't quite believe that they could earn so much money with just those flowers and a piece of thread?
After thinking about it, they also understood that Yinyue only made a dozen head flowers, and she only wove a small half of that sweater, most of which were woven by her sister-in-law.Even if they earn [-] Wen, and after deducting the material money, the big head should belong to the sister-in-law, and they can only get a small half.The sister-in-law gave them all to take care of their young couple, and felt that it was not easy for them to move out.

After Yingniang left, Shuchang told Yinyue a lot about the sister-in-law, saying that if the sister-in-law hadn't earned a lot of money from working in the weaving workshop, and made hair flowers and knitting clothes, the family would definitely be poor now Jingle.When dividing the family, don't talk about dividing the money, because I am afraid that the food distributed will not be enough to eat.

Before the sister-in-law got married, the family could only have enough to eat, and even if they spent a penny, they would be terribly distressed. How could it be like now, where they can buy whatever they want, and they can even afford silver bracelets.

Yinyue listened for a while without making a sound, and then suddenly said: "So that's the case. No wonder the second sister-in-law listens to the sister-in-law so much and treats the sister-in-law as a mother-in-law. It seems that it is because of so many benefits. She can live a good life, completely It's the sister-in-law's credit, otherwise she is pregnant and has a baby, how can she make money?"

Shuchang felt wrong when he heard this, "That's not the case. The second sister-in-law is gentle and docile. She not only listens to the elder brother and sister-in-law, but also listens to the second brother. You have to learn from the second sister-in-law and don't worry too much about small things."

"I don't care about it, but I'm not like the second sister-in-law who doesn't think about things at all. The elder sister-in-law can do whatever she asks. She doesn't care if she is right or wrong, as long as she is obedient. If it is right, I will definitely listen. If it is wrong, I am Impossible to listen to." Yinyue felt that she could not be completely at the mercy of others, she had to have her own ideas.

Shuchang couldn't say no to her, and it wasn't good to argue with her, so he said, "Anyway, I think sister-in-law is mostly right in what she does, and there seems to be nothing wrong."

Yinyue heard what Shuchang said, and felt that he was really a person with no ideas.However, from her point of view these days, she thinks that the eldest sister-in-law is really good, serving the second sister-in-law in confinement, and teaching her these skills to earn money.In the future, relying on my sister-in-law, I will not be poor no matter how I live.

At this time, Yinyue suddenly became worried for Yingniang, "Shuchang, you said that the second sister-in-law has given birth to a daughter, and the elder sister-in-law has not yet conceived. Could it be that she can't give birth to a child? If so, she will I will definitely be laughed at by others, so what should I do?"

"Don't talk nonsense about this, how could my sister-in-law not be able to give birth to a child." Shuchang also heard people in the village secretly talking about this recently, but he thought it was unlikely, "Maybe it's because of my elder brother's health. My elder brother had a serious illness when he was young. After staying in the temple for ten years, he passed out when his parents passed away. When the eldest brother recovers gradually, there will definitely be a child."

Seeing Shuchang's tone, Yinyue was very protective of her sister-in-law, she really didn't dare to say anything, and whispered: "I found that everyone in our family is afraid of sister-in-law, even you."

"It's not about being afraid of sister-in-law, but about respecting sister-in-law. You just received four hundred Wen from sister-in-law, and sister-in-law should be respected for her ability. From now on, you are not allowed to talk about sister-in-law behind her back."

"Oh, I see. But I'm not talking about her, I'm worried about her, and I hope she's well." Yinyue felt that Yingniang had once been the leader of a weaving workshop, and she could go to Wuzhou to get jobs. It's amazing.Although she feels that she is not bad, she also has self-knowledge, knowing that she can't do this at all, even if she refuses to accept Yingniang.

Shuchang confessed to Yinyue, "Tomorrow you have to be at home alone, and I have to go to Nanshan. I haven't been there these days. Except for Ji Wang who goes every day, and the elder brother and the second brother take turns to go, I can't Fall again."

"Well, go ahead, it's your turn in three days, and you won't lose much work. Our family only has three or four acres of land, so we can handle it. I heard from my sister-in-law that I want to recruit female laborers to work at home. You Say I'm going or not?"

Shuchang thought about it, but still couldn't make up his mind. He was afraid that Yinyue would be bullied by others, but he also worried that it would be okay for Yinyue to stay at home all the time. Go. If she says it's not good, don't go."

Yinyue understands that even though the family is separated, she still has to listen to her sister-in-law in some matters, because Shuchang can't and won't make decisions at all.

"Does the fence in our house need to be plugged in again, or will it be pulled out after being plugged in?" Yinyue asked him again.

"Tomorrow, when I get back from work, I have to plug it in. I don't believe it. Those people are really so idle that they secretly come to pull it out every night? Sister-in-law is right, those people will be discouraged one day."

Yinyue nodded and said: "Okay, we can't admit cowardice, we must carry it to the end."

Yingniang also thought a lot about what kind of female part-time workers to recruit.When Yingniang asked Bo Ming about this, Bo Ming said: "Let's just call the female relatives."

In fact, this Yingniang also thought, "No, if the female relatives of relatives do not do well, do they care? It is difficult to talk about wages. If I act like a businessman, I am afraid they will not be happy. I used to get along with relatives. It's pretty good, it's not good to be stiff now. Besides, the relatives are far away, don't we have to take care of the meal at noon, wouldn't that add another burden? Is the food delicious? Is there any good food? At that time, it will become another trouble. In short, if you want to do big things, you can’t find relatives. There are a lot of troubles. It’s for their own good, and I hope they can earn some money, but it’s really hard to do it.”

(End of this chapter)