farmhouse ditty

Chapter 72 The Mother-in-Law Is Here (Part [-])

After tidying up the stove, Mrs. Liu stepped out of the kitchen, looked around in the courtyard, and found a wooden basin to leave in the middle.

While she was unbuttoning her waist, she was jumping in and out of the house and the yard, with such swift and swift energy, it was like burning her buttocks.

Ji Laoliu and the boys were sitting in the yard one by one, Heiwazi was wearing clean clothes and stood in the middle, looking at Ji Laoliu with a wrinkled face.

Ji Laoliu looked back at him, reached out and rubbed Heiwazi's head, chattered and tugged at the neckline, wrinkling his old face.

"It's useless to blink your eyes out of water. Your mother told me to keep an eye on you. It's going to be the August Festival today. You don't want to go out and make trouble...I'm the same."

The four maids sat with their legs crossed, watching Mrs. Liu rushing in and out, but the two of them looked at each other and dared not go forward.

Mrs. Liu frowned, just took out two pieces of clothes from the back room, shook them open and threw them into the basin, then went to another room to search for them, still muttering about what she saw. What.

"Your father's dirty clothes disappeared after wearing them for a few days... I don't know how to give them to me, and I don't know where to put them after a long time... And you girls, the clothes are washed I don’t even stack it... How can I say that people have passed through the house..."

The big girl couldn't sit still, she wanted to help Liu Shi, but when she got up, she asked her father to stop her.

She blinked and said, "Father, I'll help mother."

Ji Laoliu waved his hands to tell her to sit down, took out the cigarette stick from his back waist, chatted, and handed it to the big girl with a smile.

He stroked his chin, "You guys, don't you know your mother's temper? When it comes to the holidays, she is the most anxious, and more than ten hours are not enough for her. You guys , it's best not to go forward, so as not to block her eyes."

The big girl put the tobacco leaves on and gave it to Ji Lao Liu, who rubbed the cigarette holder with his hands, "...Anyway, at this moment, everything you do is wrong, and nothing you do is in line with her wishes, so you should go with dad Sit and relax, and wait until the August Festival is over, and your mother will be free."

Mrs. Liu tossed back and forth several times, and the wooden basin was covered with clothes. Waiting for no more dirty clothes to be found, she stopped to let out a sigh of relief, and bent down to pull all the things that were hanging on the side into the wooden basin. , finished shouting to Chugo's room through the courtyard wall.

"Sister Xiuniang, I'm ready,"

Xiu Niang listened and shouted, "Sister-in-law Six, I'll get on with it too."

Mrs. Liu responded, rolled up her sleeves and chatted with Ji Laoliu, then picked up the wooden basin and walked out of the house.

"Father, I'll go do the laundry first, and when I get back, let's put out the food for worshiping the moon. Take care of the children at the moment, don't let them mess around and dirty their clothes."

When Mrs. Liu came out of the yard, she saw a few aunts and aunts who had washed their clothes and left them by the stream. This time she was even more anxious, and rushed to the door of Chu Ge's house.

She said, "Sister Xiuniang, let's go quickly."

Xiu Niang leaned halfway from the main room and saw Mrs. Liu grinning, wiped the square table a few times with a rag, untied her apron and put it aside before coming out.

Chu Ge was looking for some miscellaneous items in the yard, so as to make room for a table. He was piling up the firewood higher, when he heard this sentence from behind, "Give me the coat. I."

He looked back, paused for a moment, and saw that it was Xiu Niang standing behind him, but there was no smile on her little face.

It's getting a bit cold at this time, and Chugo usually wears long sleeves, but he has to wear a short coat for the past few days, so he can protect the long sleeves inside, no Will scrape and scratch.

Chu Ge moved to take off his short gown and handed it to her. He wanted to say something, but when Xiu Niang took the hand and left, he could only keep his mouth shut.

Xiu Niang took Chu Ge's coat and walked to the door. Earlier, she put all the family's dirty clothes in the tub, and put them by the door, waiting for Mrs. Liu to wash by the stream together.

She squatted down and picked up the basin, and smiled at Mrs. Liu, "Sister-in-law Liu, but you still have quick hands and feet. You were yelling just now, but now you are rushing over."

Mrs. Liu changed the side of the wooden basin so that she could walk with Xiu Niang, "Oh, why don't you be quick, let's do the housework first, and wait for the moon to watch the moon at night, so I will be free." , hurry up and go."

Xiu Niang smiled when she heard this, it was quite in line with Sixth Sister-in-Law's hasty temper, she stuck the wooden basin on her waist, thinking about turning around, but after a while, she went straight out.

Mrs. Liu could see clearly from outside, when Xiu Niang came out, Chu Ge was still looking this way with his eyes hanging, she felt that these two couples were weird, but there was something wrong.

Chu Ge stood in the yard, thinking of Xiu Niang just leaving, holding the delicate back of the threshold, but thinking about taking a look at himself.

I remember that yesterday he and Xiuniang chattered about things in the West Room, and tried to tease him by himself, but Xiuniang just ignored him all night, and he was still worried that he might be Angry with myself.

Well, Xiu Niang just said that and talked to herself willingly, so she was not angry.

He breathed a sigh of relief after thinking about it, and piled up the remaining firewood, leaving some space in the middle of the yard, so that he could put the square wooden table on the moon worship at night.

After finishing his work, Chu Ge sat down in the main room to rest his feet. The room was silent at the moment. Chu An went to take a bath by the stream with his companion just now. Westinghouse fell asleep.

Chu Ge pondered for a while in the empty courtyard, then scratched his head in boredom, and murmured in his heart.

What did he do wrong? Xixiuniang's reaction was different from what Sixth Brother said. Ren'er didn't make a fuss with herself in a coquettish way, but instead smiled with herself with a sullen face.

I remember that earlier, the sixth brother called himself out of the room one day and talked about it for a long time. Most of them blamed him for being very dull, saying that he and Xiuniang were not like a couple at all. .

At that time, he asked Ji Laoliu why he and Xiuniang were not like a couple, and then Ji Laoliu just put eight words out of his mouth, no fuss, no fun.

He also said that between the two of them, they had to make noise and tease each other.

So yesterday he thought of this, and thought about making fun of Xiu Niang, and then he said it, looking at Xiu Niang's shy look, his heart was itchy, but after the meeting, Xiu Niang Mother is not on fire.

After a whole night, Xiu Niang still didn't say anything to herself, but she was anxious about him.

Chu Ge stood up thinking about it, and walked out of the house, or taking advantage of the free time, the sixth sister-in-law and Xiu Niang went to do the laundry again, so he hurried across the house to ask the sixth brother.

This time, Xiuniang and Mrs. Liu were walking down the slope, she looked at the people around her, and chatted with Xiuniang, "Sister, what happened to you and Chu Ge, talk to Sixth Sister-in-Law."

Xiu Niang looked at Mrs. Liu, and said, "It's nothing, why is Sixth Sister-in-law asking such a question?"

Liu curled her lips, "What's the matter? Why are you ignoring Chu Geai?"

Xiuniang sighed a little, and said, "Sister-in-law Liu, it's not like you don't know that idiot's temper, I've said a few words, and the person answered me, and I've said four words, Only then can I get a whole sentence from Ren'er, and I am very annoyed to talk to him."

Mrs. Liu laughed out loud when she heard this, and murmured to her not to worry, since a man's mouth is stupid and his heart is honest.

Xiu Niang didn't say anything, she just responded. In fact, what she said just now was not the truth, but she said it because Mrs. Liu saw something, because it was a matter between her and Chu Ge. , there is no reason to just say it.

Besides, she didn't ignore Chu Ge, it's just that what Chu Ge said yesterday really fell into her hands, she was just a little embarrassed.

When they got to the side of the stream, Xiuniang saw a few little devils messing about in the water, and it seemed that there was Chu An's shadow, and he was instigating the boys to go to the shallow place at the stream to make water flowers. .

The kid was quite clever, he shook his head and didn't agree, because there were a few peasants fishing for fish, and he was holding a big rock and smashing it down, splashing water, Chu An and the others were in love, so he had to He was beaten, who told him to scare away other people's fish.

Seeing that Xiuniang didn't respond while she was talking, she called out again, waiting for her to come back to her senses, "Sister, look at me, I've been talking for a long time, and you didn't answer .”

Xiu Niang looked at her and said with a smile, "I just saw Chu Anfang making a fuss, I didn't care, Liu sister-in-law, you are also angry, didn't you talk about Zhuzi's house, I forgot to say that , Chugo won't let me..."

Mrs. Liu said impatiently, "Hey, did I tell you to move quickly, but you forgot, it's all right now, the person in front of the house was dragged out."

Xiu Niang was taken aback for a moment, "What? It's only been a few days, why did someone else take over... Then, Six Sister-in-Law, do you know who did it?"

Mrs. Liu pursed her lips and shook her head, "Yesterday, Zhuzi's father came over to ask me to talk to you. He is in a hurry to move the house now, and he can't wait until the August Festival as you said. Someone came to ask, and he was dragged out. As for who it is, he doesn’t know, anyway, it’s not from our village, and it sounds like someone from outside.”

Xiu Niang was discouraged now, and she had nothing to say along the way. In the morning, she broke a pottery bowl with her skater. like.

After the two of them washed their clothes by the stream, Mrs. Liu stopped nagging with those by the stream, and went back to the house after calling for Xiu Niang.

Mrs. Liu was talking to herself, looking at Xiuniang's sluggishness, and thinking about talking to her, she can't buy a big house this time, maybe there will be some good things in the future, it's not old As the saying goes, things come and go, the small ones don’t go, and the big ones don’t come.

What she said, Xiu Niang didn't get excited either, she just responded first, cheered up and laughed, and then why can't I still have a good time this August Festival?

Xiu Niang was thinking about going home, when she suddenly saw a mule cart parked in front of her house, and a farmer was carrying something into her yard from above, and there were three or four people standing beside her. son of a bitch.

A hunchbacked old man in his 50s and a man in his thirties are next to him. Like the two of them, they are naturally honest.

There is also a rich and pregnant aunt with a half-grandmother beside her to support her.

The half-old woman was holding a paper bag in her hand, and she knew it was a neat woman just by looking at her face...

(End of this chapter)