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Chapter 84 A Good Man Tells You To Do It

Mrs. Liu tapped the hoe on the ground to make the loose hoe blade firmer, and Xiuniang chattered as she moved.

"Well, isn't it just moving the sieve rack to my yard, and it doesn't take up space. You can ask Chu Ge to move it later."

Xiu Niang stood by and waited for her, smiling, "Then thank you, sister-in-law Liu, hey, I didn't want to trouble sister-in-law six, but my mother is pregnant and said that smelling the scent of flowers makes her feel uncomfortable, but I These Erbao vines will not be successful if they are not exposed to the sun..."

Mrs. Liu said, "Hey, sister, don't worry, you take that Erbao vine, I'll put it on the top layer to dry, and put some mountain mushrooms on the bottom, the sun is very strong in my yard, Hurry up and dry the goods."

Xiu Niang listened and smiled, chatting with her, in fact, just now near the courtyard, what she asked for Liu's help was to take the Erbao vine to dry in her courtyard, because now there are many people in her family, This Erbao vine is her most important way of getting money, how could she be careless?

Now in this family, apart from Father Chu, who is better, she is worried about everyone else, then Mrs. Shen doesn't want to see her, Mrs. Wen is very thoughtful, Chu Ge's elder brother is dull and honest, and he listens to his daughter-in-law for everything. If the two of them teamed up to trip her up, she would be hard to guard against.

Not to mention that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will publicize their planting of Erbao vines, they are not that stupid, because if people in the village know about this, they will definitely follow suit, just like the bamboo shoots before .

It's just that this method brings money quickly, and if they really know about it, then Wen's family won't tell her mother-in-law, and tell her to call Chu Ge to divide the money equally.

Although she is in charge of the family's money now, just looking at Chu Ge like that, don't think he is a filial son, and when he hears what Shen said, he will inevitably get angry with himself.

She didn't want to have trouble with Chu Ge, she just didn't want Chu Ge to be difficult to deal with, thinking that Mrs. Shen and the others are Chu Ge's biological parents and brothers, so she let them live in...

Xiu Niang stood aside and waited while Mrs. Liu finished the hoe, and the two of them chatted and walked to the field again.

She thought about it and said, "Then Sister-in-law Six, if someone asks you, you're a sieve..."

Mrs. Liu put the hoe on her shoulder, "Hey, I won't talk about this matter. If people want to ask, I'll just say it's the dried cauliflower at home. I know you're bothered by those broken pieces. Mouth, if they know about this and say that your aunt is carrying a baby and making a fuss and won’t tolerate you, then you will be the one to be blamed.”

Xiu Niang pursed her lips and nodded, "Well, Mrs. Six is ​​right."

Mrs. Liu was talking and laughing, and teased Xiuniang with a little effort, "Sister, talk to me again, what you said before was to embroider those little house sparrows, and your stitches are What's the matter, why can't I always remember?"

Xiuniang put the two bamboo baskets together, freed up one hand and gestured to her, "Hey, it's not difficult, Liu sister-in-law, you just need to remember to hide the stitches in the thread—hey, Liu Sister-in-law, have we passed by?"

Mrs. Liu listened for a while, and then looked back. The two of them were busy chatting along the way, and she listened carefully again, not noticing that the field of her own family had gone too far.

After thinking about it, she waved her hand, pulled Xiu Niang's arm and pulled it forward, "Oh, forget it, I'm too lazy to go back, let's go to your field and continue chatting, didn't you just say you wanted to go to the field to pick the What about the Erbao vine, I'll help you get a basket."

Xiu Niang was dragged away by her, "Sixth, Sixth Sister-in-Law, then in your field..."

Mrs. Liu grinned, "Don't worry, your Sixth Brother took Hei Wazi to the ground earlier, and I don't have much work to do when I come here now."

Xiu Niang looked at her and smiled, and said, "That's a good thing, I'll have the cheek to ask you to help me."

On the dirt road near the entrance of the village, fields were stretched out on the left and right sides, and a mound of soil was built in the middle of the two houses next to each other, which was leveled with a hoe for walking.

Mrs. Liu usually seldom walks here, but now she is very happy to see the crops in other fields, talking about whose vegetable garden is well built, and whose crops are growing fat...

Xiu Niang smiled as she listened. They walked all the way on the mound of soil in the field, and stopped when they passed a piece of grain. She pointed to the front, "Sister-in-law Six, we are here."

Mrs. Liu looked at the sorghum with long stalks in front of her, and said strangely, "Hey, sister, I remember that your family once planted lettuce and buried potato heads. When are you planting sorghum now? So what?" Erbao vine? Let’s not pass by again.”

Xiu Niang smiled, the big vacant land at the back of the morning was planted with potato heads, but now Chu Ge has planted Erbao vines, she called Liu Shi to walk back, "Sister-in-law Liu, You just come here from the ridge of the field."

Listening to Xiu Niang's words, Mrs. Liu walked on the mound of soil in the field, looked around the sorghum in front, and saw clusters of short, small flowering trees covered with white and yellow flowers.

She looked at Yan Xiuniang, "Oh, sister, is this Erbao Vine, why is it so white and yellow that it's all open."

Xiuniang smiled and said, "Sister-in-law Liu, these are Erbao vines, that's right, they can change color."

Putting the hoe on the ground, Mrs. Liu went to a plant, looked at it carefully, and touched it with her hand, "Hey, to be honest, I only saw it in the medicine shop before, and the one in the cabinet is just like ours. That dried cauliflower."

Xiu Niang picked up a few and showed her, "Sister-in-law Six, it will be like that after these are finished drying."

Seeing that she took a bamboo basket from Xiuniang, Mrs. Liu followed her example in picking flowers, "Oh, I'll pick it up now...that girl, give me one."

Xiu Niang came forward with a basket on her shoulders, she was familiar with the picking, she bowed her hands left and right, and said to Liu Shi from time to time, "Sister-in-law Liu, don't want those flowers...you have to find these flower buds...here, like This is the best…”

Mrs. Liu responded, carrying the basket with one hand, and picking the flower buds with the other. At first, she was very raw with her hands, but after half an hour, she was like Xiu Niang, with the basket on her shoulders, and both hands were busy. on.

Xiu Niang had to praise her for being a capable person at work, and she could get started with everything after a few times, but she had been searching for a long time to be able to use both sides like this.

Mrs. Liu was delighted when she heard this, she laughed and said something, then raised her eyes to look around, busy with her hands, turned her head to ask Xiu Niang.

"Come on, seeing me helping you, I wondered if it would be wrong to give me ecstasy soup... Sister, seriously, are you going to ask your uncle and his wife to stay at your house?"

After hearing this, Xiu Niang sighed, "Oh, I was thinking about this too yesterday, I thought about discussing it with Chu Ge at night, and finding a place to live in Xiayang Village..."

Mrs. Liu opened her eyes wide and raised her voice, "What? You still have to find a place for your uncle and his wife, oops, I think you are overzealous, have you forgotten how your uncle killed Chu Ge! "

Xiu Niang looked at Mrs. Liu, and smiled, "Sister-in-law Liu, you really scared me, but do you want to listen to what I have to say?"

Mrs. Liu nodded, "Okay, okay, say what you say."

Xiu Niang said, "I originally wanted to find a similar place to live with my parents-in-law. Although the second uncle asked my parents-in-law to come to his place first to deal with it for a while, the old man also said earlier that that is Because the youngest son of his family has gone far away and didn't say when he'll be back, so the sooner he finds a room, the better."

Mrs. Liu sneered, and shook the half-basket of Erbao vines, "Hey, you girl...then it's time to find a big house, and you'll pay for it."

Xiu Niang smiled, "I want to come up with it too, but do I have to have those coins too?"

Mrs. Liu glanced at Xiuniang, and originally wanted to say that she should not stop such a big job if she doesn't have that much ability, and don't shoot her own foot with a stone, but she changed her words after thinking about it, after all, she No matter how well they get along with Xiu Niang, it's better not to say too much about some things.

She teased Xiu Niang a little bit, "You girl, you dare to talk when you don't have money."

Xiu Niang picked her hands full, and said with a smile, "Why don't I dare to say it, is this a matter of lip service, do you think that if I don't look for a big house, my father-in-law and mother-in-law won't?"

Mrs. Liu said, "Then, then you have found a big house, your uncle's house?"

Xiu Niang raised her eyebrows and said, "My father-in-law and mother-in-law are looking for a big house, will my mother-in-law still live in the main room of my house?"

Mrs. Liu looked puzzled, "What do you mean?"

Xiu Niang put the Erbao rattan in her hand into a basket, and smiled, "What do you mean? What I mean is that my aunt has been talking about living in a big house. If she wants to live in this time, she will have to live in it." It's about my mother-in-law."

Originally, the old couple of the Shen family dragged their families through the village, so it was obvious that they were relying on Chu Ge.

Now that this matter has come up, she can't help it, but they can't live in her house forever, and she still has to be with Chu Ge...cough, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Besides, she is now looking for a big house, which is nominally for Chuge's parents, and if she doesn't need to bother to drive Wen's away, then Wen's will be eager to live with Shen and the others.

Mrs. Liu paused, thought about it, and murmured, "This is what you said about 'talking about it'... yo, I told you to do it with good people."

Xiu Niang just smiled when she heard this, and quickened her movements. It was almost noon and she had to rush back to cook.

Waiting for the two bamboo baskets to be full, Xiuniang called Mrs. Liu to the field behind the Erbao vine, and asked her to pick some fresh lettuce and go home in time for a noon frying meal.

It turned out that Chu Ge just removed the potato heads and moved the lettuce garden to the back. As for why he put sorghum in the front rows, only Xiu Niang knew.

After about a cup of tea, Xiuniang and Mrs. Liu came back with two wet bamboo baskets. Just now they went to the stream, submerged the baskets in the water, and passed the Erbao vine and the freshly picked bamboo baskets. The lettuce was washed.

Almost at the gate of her own courtyard, Xiuniang said to Liu Shi, "Sister-in-law Liu, please wait for a while, I will ask Chu Ge to take out the drying rack..."

As she was chattering, she bumped into Mrs. Chen head-on, and she was startled when she saw it. After she finished looking at Xiuniang's bamboo basket, she murmured with a sullen face, "You girl, you've been out for such a long time. Come back with a basket of lettuce, go and buy a few catties of meat, someone is coming home."

Xiu Niang was taken aback when she heard that, she turned her head to look into the yard, and then she pulled the corner of her mouth, this lotus girl is really haunted...

(End of this chapter)