Across the Market

Chapter 2

"Mother, it's not me, it's my sister." Sister Nuan ran to her mother coquettishly, hugged her mother's soft waist, raised her head and said, "I'm so good, I got up early." She turned to Zhu Fu grimaced, "Second Sister is the slob, shame on you." After she finished speaking, she scraped her cheeks with her chubby hands.

Wei Sanniang smiled sweetly, touched her little daughter's head and said, "Okay, our sister Nuan is the most obedient, let's go, mother cooked you your favorite brown sugar eggs." After finishing speaking, she kissed her daughter's face, and then Smiling, he said to Zhu Fu, "Sister Fu's favorite tofu flower was also brought by Aunt Shen who was just next door by Yuzhu. Go and eat it while it's hot."

The family next door lived with the surname Shen. There were only two mothers and daughters. I heard that there was also a son who was studying abroad, leaving only the mother and daughter to depend on each other.

The mother and daughter make a living by selling tofu. Although they are not rich, they can live on.

There are strong men in the Zhu family who often take care of the Shen family's mother and daughter, so the Shen family will send a large bowl of fresh tofu flowers every morning.

In the small palm-sized yard outside, there is a peach tree, and under the peach tree is a round wooden table, on which there are already fragrant white rice porridge and golden fried dough sticks.Sister Nuan smelled the fragrance, let go of her mother and sister's hands, swayed and ran to sit at the table.

Zhu Xi hugged his three-year-old younger brother, Shou, and fed him rice soup with a small spoon. Seeing Nuan's eyes eagerly looking at the boiled eggs in brown sugar, she smiled and said, "Sister Nuan has grown up. If you want to eat eggs, peel them yourself."

After hearing what the eldest sister said, Nuan looked at Brother Shou who seemed to have not woken up, and then at her mother and third sister. Seeing that no one was helping her, she could only wrinkle her fleshy little face and knock on her own. Egg shells.After peeling off the bluish-white egg shells, Sister Nuan put the white and tender boiled eggs into the white rice porridge, and then took a bite of the porridge and took a bite of the egg.

Zhu Fu looked around, he didn't see his cheap father Zhu Da and cheap brother Zhu Lu early in the morning, he couldn't help asking Wei Sanniang in doubt, "Mother, where are father and brother? Why didn't we see them early in the morning?" , did you go out?"

Wei Sanniang stretched out her head to look at the iron shop in front, but she didn't hear anything, so she frowned and said, "Why didn't you come back all night, it's okay, mother will go to your grandparent's house to have a look in person later."

Zhu Xi was puzzled when he heard the words: "What happened to grandma's house, and father and brother need to stay away overnight?"

A look of embarrassment flashed across Wei Sanniang's face, she knew in her heart that her natal family looked down on her family, and she always felt that she was not well married, and that if her two older sisters were well married, she would not be able to bring benefits to her and her younger brother.But no matter how much my mother sneered at me, she was my mother after all, so I couldn't say much, I could only complain in my stomach.

In fact, when her younger brother came to ask Da Lang and Brother Lu to help the eldest brother-in-law's house last night, she was conflicted in her heart and instinctively wanted to refuse.But thinking about it, the relationship between my family, my mother's family and the two sisters' families has become very stiff. If I refuse now, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get along with them in the future.

She glanced at her husband who was sitting silently by the side, struggled in her heart, but managed to force a smile and said to her younger brother: "Your brother-in-law is not as healthy as before, don't let him do heavy work, I'll go and wake Brother Lu up, Let their father and son go together."

The younger brother clearly said that there was only a little cargo that needed to be unloaded from the pier, and it could be finished in an hour at most, so why did Da Lang and Brother Lu not be seen until now.

Thinking about it this way, Wei Sanniang was very upset, always felt that something was going to happen, and couldn't sit still, so she simply explained to a few younger ones: "It's your aunt's family, who came back from the provincial capital and said yes I brought a batch of goods back. Last night your uncle came to our house in a hurry and asked your father and elder brother to go to the pier to help unload the goods.” Then he said to the eldest daughter, sister Xi, “Take care of your younger brothers and sisters, mother go and see .”

After finishing speaking, he got up and hurried forward.

After his mother left, Zhu Fu carefully looked at his sister's face, seeing that her sister's face was very bad, she guessed a little bit in her heart.However, the more you know about the affairs of this family, the better, so as to save time for the relatives around you to see the clues.

Thinking in this way, Zhu Fu's big dark eyes as washed by clear water turned around, he brought the small bench closer to his sister, sniffed the tofu flower, and asked: "Sister, what do you think?" Will daddy and brother be okay? I don't think my mother looks well."

Zhu Xi snorted and said, "It's not a day or two since they've been doing this kind of thing. Since they look down on our family, why bother to look for someone when they need to find coolies? A few days ago, my father had a hard time, and I asked Yuzhu to Helped put the news at grandma's house, but who came to see daddy. It's good now, when there are dirty jobs to do, I only think of us..."

(End of this chapter)