peasant woman headed home

Chapter 13

Mother Li looked at the red embroidery at the door for a while, then walked into the kitchen.

"Xiu'er, it's so early in the morning, what are you busy with?" After speaking, Li's mother took over the work in Hong Xiu's hands.

"Mother, I woke up early because I couldn't sleep suddenly." Hongxiu looked at Li's mother busy, so she handed over a plate to move some bowls, and asked the question she had always been yearning for, "Mother, when will our family go to the market?" Go? There are no seasonings at home..." Well, Hongxiu admitted that he really wanted to see the ancient assembly with his own eyes. Although the original owner had the concept of assembly in his memory, he had never been there, almost always Staying at home, the embroidery work is brought by Li's mother to wait for the original owner to finish the embroidery. At most, I will send meals to Li's father and the others when the spring is busy and the autumn harvest is busy.

"In two days, when your father and the others finish the work in the house, we will go to the town. And you, you are getting married soon, and it's time to buy clothes. This time, I will buy some red cloth. You Now that your hand is injured, the wedding dress lady will do it for you. Don't tell them that there is no married woman who doesn't embroider the wedding dress by herself. It's all that poisonous woman... Forget it, let's not talk about her, Xiuer , take this out, tell your father to eat, and your sister-in-law has come back from mowing the grass, tell her to finish feeding the pigs quickly and then come to eat." Mother Li was talking, but she was not slow in her hands, holding a After the porridge went out, Mother Li wiped her eyes vigorously with her sleeve, and then put some pickled radish before going out.

Hongxiu put down the plate and went out to ask everyone to eat.When I came to the pig shed, I saw Mrs. Wang feeding the pigs, so I said hello: "Sister-in-law, don't feed them, come and eat quickly. Brother, they are all eating."

"Sister Xiu, I'll be fine if I'm hungry, but the piglets can't be hungry. I just hope they will grow up and grow up quickly. A few days ago, my father-in-law said that when the piglets grow up, they will go to the east of the village when they are old enough." Li Xiucai's private school is in class." Wang said, her eyes were full of smiles, and she continued to feed, "Sister Xiu, how many people in our village can go to Li Xiucai's class? I heard that many of the students who go to Li Xiucai’s school are children from the next village, and I have to pay two taels of silver for a year’s class there. The savings are enough to cover half a year’s expenses for the family. Da Zhuang really knows how to reincarnate, with such a good grandfather..."

The next door village is a relatively wealthy village, so they are willing to let their children go to school to improve their knowledge, but the economic situation of Lijia Village is average, there are only a few families with good backgrounds, such as the Li family, Li Zhong and Li Ji also went to school for a few years. Learning, but maybe not this kind of material, I didn't learn anything famous, but I can read a few words, Li Ji is still the accountant in the town, and he specially asked for leave when he was busy with farm work.

"Daughter-in-law Zhong, you are chatting with Xiu'er or something. Hurry up and feed the pigs. The piglets are getting bigger, and the eldest grandson should go to school with Xiucai. Xiu'er, come over for dinner." Mother Li interrupted loudly With Wang's words, the neighbors must be able to hear the volume.Listen carefully to Mother Li's emphasis on the three keywords of grandson, scholar, and going to school.Hongxiu suddenly realized that it was normal for the rural old lady to be a little vain and show off.Besides, this is to learn knowledge from a scholar, which is different from an illiterate person, and it immediately makes people look high.It's not like now, college students can't find a job...

Although Mrs. Wang was said something, she was not unhappy and continued to feed the pigs with a smile on her face.Tsk tsk, this spirit, you also have to learn Hongxiu hard.

"Mother, I'll be right here." After saying that, she ran to Mother Li to have dinner together.

Looking forward, looking forward, the busy days of spring are over, and the time to go to the market is coming.On this day, Mother Li and Mrs. Wang got up early in the morning, one baked some pancakes to eat on the way, and the other was concerned about feeding the pigs.After tossing for a while, the group decided to set off for the town.

Mother Li, Mrs. Wang, and Hongxiu went to the town to buy some red cloth and other dowry, while Li Ji went to the town to resume work.Although the Li family has a cow, it is used for farm work, and sometimes it is leased to the villagers instead of driving a cart.Therefore, everyone went to town in an ox cart with Li's handlebars.It costs about two yuan per person to go there, and they will wait for everyone to return to the village in the town, which is very convenient.

There are still many people going to the town, and there are no grocery stores in the village, so they often go to the town to buy something.Hongxiu's family came early, and Li's mother picked a good seat for her, worrying that Hongxiu was not used to riding an ox cart for the first time.Hongxiu didn't sit for long, and some people came one after another.

(End of this chapter)