farm daughter-in-law

Chapter 253

Autumn is strong, and the leaves of the sycamore tree in front of He's house are falling down one after another, and the withered and yellow leaves are curled and spread on the ground. Zhang Xihua cleans it up with a broom. When a gust of wind blows, another dead leaf immediately falls from the tree. She simply put down the broom, sat on the bamboo chair with her swollen belly in her hands and bowed her head in thought.

It has been more than two months since my husband left home, and I don't know where he is now?Did you arrive in Yizhou smoothly?

Before her husband left home, he said that he would send letters home, but correspondence was so inconvenient that even if he wrote a letter, it might take more than a month to receive it.Zhang Xihua did not dare to look forward to receiving her husband's letter from home.

The courtyard door made a knocking sound and opened with a creak, and a small head at the threshold peered out.

Zhang Xihua looked up, smiled immediately, and said softly: "Slow down..."

"Mother!" Brother Yu grinned, showing his teeth. He is small now, and the threshold is still too high for him, so he had to make some effort to climb out.

After successfully leaving the door, Brother Yu immediately opened his hands excitedly, ran to Zhang Xihua's side swiftly, threw himself into her arms and giggled.

Zhang Xihua was worried about her stomach, so she had to move him away a little bit, and muttered helplessly: "Little villain!"

Young children are very forgetful. After He Sheng left home, except for the first few days, Brother Yu cried and looked for his father. The family couldn't coax him well, so he tried to mention He Sheng in front of Brother Yu as little as possible, and he never saw Brother Yu again. daddy.

Zhang Xihua occasionally felt very uncomfortable.Because she couldn't tell her in-laws how much she missed her husband, she especially wanted to find someone to confide in, and her son was the best one.But as soon as He Sheng was mentioned, his usually well-behaved son would cry and make a fuss, and he couldn't be coaxed, and Zhang Xihua couldn't do it himself, so he had to hold back his mouth.

My heart is bitter.

"Mother, little peanut gave birth to an egg." Brother Yu said happily, and he stretched out his hand to show the size of the egg.

His dark eyes were filled with joy.

Looking at her son's expectant eyes, Zhang Xihua encouraged her with affirmative tone: "Because our little fish feeds Xiao Hua diligently every day, so Xiao Hua lays eggs to repay you. My little Yu'er is awesome."

After being praised, Brother Yu's face blushed quietly, and those star-like eyes stared at Zhang Xihua without blinking.

His face grew longer, and he looked more and more like He Sheng.

Zhang Xihua was lost in thought for a while, thinking of her husband who was away from home, the smile on her face faded slightly, she rubbed her son's little head, and said softly: "May I fry eggs for Xiao Yuer at noon?"

Brother Yu tilted his head and thought about it, and said seriously: "I don't eat the eggs of the little peanut, and I don't eat both of the little peanuts."

He still firmly remembers that the chicken named Xiao Hua laid two eggs.

Zhang Xihua's mood was affected by her son, and suddenly she became more cheerful, so she thought of teasing him.

Just at this time, a tall horse pulled a carriage past the door of He's house, and the horse was walking towards the village with a tattered pace.

"Horse..." Brother Yu started to run towards the carriage, but Zhang Xihua quickly grabbed him.

The carriage was going fast, and it was far away from He's house in an instant. Zhang Xihua looked up and saw that it was going to the center of the village.

Such a luxurious formation is really rare, so the horse-drawn carriage passed by, and villagers raised their heads to watch from time to time.

It is estimated that it is the one from the village.Zhang Xihua thought to herself.

However, the carriage traveled all the way, and in the end it didn't stop at Li Zheng's house, but went more centrally.

Most of the people living there are named Luo.

After figuring out who to go to, Zhang Xihua immediately lost interest.

Luo Ergou's family clings to the old man who is an official in the county, and now there is no other family that can drive a carriage except his family.

After a while, Xiu Niang hugged her chubby son, went to Zhang Xihua with a gossipy face and said, "That family is here to show off again."

It's just selling girls for glory, but they keep coming out to attract people's attention. People who look like they are shameless and invincible.Xiu Niang curled her lips and thought.

After the rice has been harvested in a hurry, it must be turned over for drying while the sun is full, so the place for drying the rice is very important. Because of the matter of the place for drying the rice, Luo Ergou's family forcibly occupied it because they had an official from the county as their backer. Many places in other houses were used to dry millet, among them was Uncle He's.So Uncle He's family had some conflicts with Luo Ergou's family, Xiuniang really hated Luo Ergou's family now.

Since ancient times, the people have not fought with the officials, so there is nothing they can do. No matter how much the Luo Ergou family goes too far, the villagers have to endure it.Even Li Zheng's family has to endure it, let alone ordinary villagers with little foundation.

Xiuniang cursed for a while, but when she saw that Zhang Xihua didn't go along with her, she felt bored for a while, so she said she was going to play in the center of the village, and left with Brother Bao in her arms.

Xiuniang's son took a baby name "Bao Ge'er", and he was really her sharp-hearted baby, who never left her body wherever he went.

Zhang Xihua knew that Xiuniang was complaining, but she was actually envious of the Luo family. She must be watching the fun when she went out now, so she didn't stop her.

Zhang Xihua didn't dare to be interested in what the Luo family got again. She took a look at the sky and saw that it was almost lunch time, so she took Brother Yu's hand and walked to the house.

The sister-in-law got married, and the husband went away again, and the family became colder and colder.Today He Dashuan and He Zeng are going to weed the soybean seedlings in the field, Zhang Xihua and Brother Yu are the only ones at home.

Zhang Xihua washed the rice immediately after entering the kitchen, and put the rice washing water aside after washing.Brother Yu took a small water ladle and happily played with the muddy rice washing water.

These rice washing waters are of great use.

Taking care of housework all the year round, Zhang Xihua accidentally discovered the usefulness of rice washing water.Choose a piece of fertile land in the yard, cover it with thatch, and pour rice washing water on the thatch every day. After a period of time, a lot of earthworms will grow in that soil.

Earthworms are big and long. Whether they are fed to chickens or ducks, chickens and ducks will grow fat and strong after eating earthworms, especially hens and ducks are willing to lay eggs after eating them.

After Zhang Xihua taught this simple life skill to his father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law, he then taught it to his son.

In order to cultivate his son's hands-on ability, Zhang Xihua took him to dig earthworms every day, and then fed the earthworms to the chickens and ducks at home.

It can be regarded as cultivating his sense of responsibility from an early age.

Although brother Yu is usually naughty, he listens to his grandparents and mother very much.After his mother taught him how to feed the chickens and ducks, he remembered to feed the chickens and ducks at a fixed time every day.Small people, very responsible.

Zhang Xihua was very pleased with this.

(End of this chapter)