The safety and comfort of traveling through farming

Chapter 58

With the lessons learned from the fire incident, He Tao became more careful with the children, not daring to relax a bit, and with Fu Shi's hard-working "assistance", nothing went wrong afterwards.

Last year, he got his great-uncle's Spring Festival couplets. This year, he added a pair of precious daughters and made a lot of money. Fu Shi felt that his family was blessed by his great-uncle. This year, He Tao offered to ask for Spring Festival couplets before he thought of him.He Tao wanted to go with the family of four, but Fu Shi firmly vetoed the proposal, saying that it was windy and snowy, and the child would easily catch cold when taken outside, so he asked He Tao to stay and watch the child, and he went alone with etiquette.

Half an hour later, he returned home with the couplet in his hands, and asked He Tao as soon as he entered the door: "Daughter-in-law, take a quick look, what did the great uncle write?"

He Tao's mouth twitched, remembering the misleading Spring Festival couplets from last year.She slowly moved to the kang table, and after looking at it from beginning to end, she was relieved. Fortunately, Grand Uncle took an ordinary path this year.

He Tao squinted his eyes with a smile: "The upper line is the prosperity of the family and the business, and the prosperity of the branches and leaves, and the lower line is the addition of the imports, the blessings, the wealth, the prosperity, the prosperity, the horizontal criticism, and the auspicious stars."

"Good match! What a joy!" Fu Shi nodded.

"More than that, the Shanglian also wrote down the origin of our names Dongzhi and Dongye! You see, these four characters are full of branches and leaves!" He Tao pointed to the couplet and explained to Fu Shi.

"That's great!" Fu Shi couldn't help but sigh with emotion.The daughter-in-law is literate and can understand everything, but he can only recognize his own name.He picked up Dong Zhi and played high with her: "Dong Zhi, will your father send you to school when you grow up? From now on, you will be like your mother and become a talented girl!"

He Tao has black lines all over her face, she is a talented girl, she is semi-literate now, and she bought a bunch of enlightenment books for the sake of literacy!
After buying those books, she flipped through them hastily. The "Three Character Classic" is full of small stories and big principles, and it would be good to keep a sentence every day as a bedtime reading—the premise is that she has to figure out the meaning of each sentence first, and this premise is not met, so she throws it aside. "Hundred Surnames", "Thousand Characters", and "Children's Qionglin" seemed to her to be reference materials, almost like a dictionary, for reference, and they were thrown aside.Only "The Enlightenment of the Rhythm" and "The Conversation of Li Weng" were beautifully written and neatly written, and they were catchy to read, which suited her appetite, but after the three days of enthusiasm, they were also thrown aside to collect dust.

When Fu Shi mentioned this, she remembered that she was idle anyway, so she might as well teach the two little teachers and create a semester atmosphere!

She rummaged through the boxes and chests to find out the books, and then put the winter branches and leaves side by side on the kang. She opened "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" and read it in a straight voice.

"Clouds are against rain, snow is against wind, evening sunshine is against clear sky. Birds are against swallows, old birds are against songworms..."

Dongzhi and Dongye were originally teased by Fu Shi so that they squinted their eyes, opened their small mouths and hummed, but He Tao stared at her as soon as he was two children in school, and his mouth was ahhh. hum along.

He Tao was terrified, wondering if the old lady gave birth to a pair of buns stuffed with sesame seeds?Is this a little child prodigy or is it being worn?
She continued to read with great entanglement, the two children gradually quieted down, no longer ah ah, just looked at her, then slowly narrowed their round eyes, raised their small fists and yawned delicately, waiting for her to read to the first When the last line of the paragraph is "The man is strong, and he spits out a rainbow in his chest", look at the two little ones, and they are already fast asleep!
Now I have found a magic weapon to lull children to sleep, reading hypnosis!
He Tao touched the little faces of the sleeping girls, raised his head and said to Fu Shi, "Don't think that they will be talented or not in the future, they just go to sleep as soon as they hear others reading, and they can give the Three Character Classic to others in the future." If you memorize it, it will be as good as the sky!"

"Nonsense, they are tired!" Fu Shi firmly believed that his daughter was smart and would become a talented woman in the future, so he argued: "They are only so old, they haven't reached their hundredth day yet, how could they learn so much all at once? I'm tired after just a few words."

Silly father!You know that it's easy to get tired after a hundred days, so do you expect them to really learn something now?He Tao cursed inwardly.

However, with this, He Tao began to think about making some educational toys for the two children, such as building blocks, so that they can play by themselves early.Excitedly, she took out a pen and paper, and drew all the building blocks she could think of, and marked the size of each block.

"Daughter-in-law, what are you painting?" Fu Shi leaned over to watch her scribble.

"It's for Dongzhi and Dongye. Nuo, you see, the triangular ones are placed on top of the squares to form a house, so they are piled up for fun!" He Tao explained to Fu Shi enthusiastically.

Fu Shi frowned: "What's so interesting about this?"

"..." He Tao thought about it carefully, and she herself felt that there was nothing interesting! !

"But Su, what if a child just likes it!" He Tao said.

Fu Shi has nothing to say, who knows if it is still [-]!Anyway, the daughter-in-law is fine when she is idle, so let her pass the time!

The two were talking when there was a knock on the door.Fu Shi ran out and saw Fu Lei from the second bedroom came.

"Cousin, cousin, my parents asked you to have a reunion dinner on the [-]th day!"

Fu Shi was excited when he heard it: "Really?"

"There are fake ones!" Fu Lei said with a smile, "Remember to arrive on time!"

"Okay, okay, we must be on time!"

After seeing off Fu Lei, Fu Shile went back to the house in a dizzy manner.

"What is Brother Lei doing here? Why didn't you come in?" He Tao asked him.

"It was the second uncle and the second aunt who asked him to come and ask us to have a reunion dinner at noon the day after tomorrow!"

"Really? That's great!" He Tao also laughed.

It is an old custom in Rongshu Village that brothers who have separated from each other take turns cooking group dinners during the Chinese New Year.Generally, the order of seniority is reversed, the youngest son eats it first, and the eldest son Zhang Luo first worships and then eats the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve.

Even a stingy person like the Da Zhou family has to prepare good wine and good food every New Year's Eve to invite He Zhigao's brothers, He Zhigui and He Zhisheng, to have a reunion dinner.There are dozens of people from three families and four generations in one group, and there are four or five tables full.

This is not the most lively, because the He family still has the leader of the great uncle He Daliang. Before the reunion dinner on the [-]th day, all the He family members from him to the ancestral house will gather together to worship at the ancestral grave Then go home for a group year.There are nearly a hundred people in the He family, old and young, and the scene can catch up with ordinary people's weddings and weddings.

When Fu Shi's parents were still alive, the two houses of Fu's family also took turns to cook reunion dinners, eating in the second room at 29, and eating in the big room at [-].Later, the population of Dafang withered, Fu Shi lived alone, and only Erfang's own people were left for the reunion dinner.

When she and Fu Shi just got married last year, although the second uncle took care of them, he didn't mention letting them have a reunion dinner. Judging from this situation, the people in the second room have completely lost their taboo against them!

This is a great thing!The hard work of the past year has not been in vain!

"Shitou, find out the wine you bought at the big fair, and then bring it over for you to have a drink with your second uncle and cousin!" He Tao instructed Fu Shi: "Also pack some snacks and candies, and bring them to Tingting and the others." eat!"

"Hey, good!"

Fu Shi was busy for a while packing up his things, and then turned to the kang to chat with He Tao about the New Year's dinner. The more he talked, the more interesting he became, and finally he talked about his childhood.

"My father has been working in Huang Dahu's house all year round. I haven't seen him a few times throughout the year, but he doesn't like to laugh. Every time he sees him, he always puts on a face. I have been afraid of him since I was a child. That year's New Year's Eve At the age of 29, my mother and my second aunt made a big table of delicious food, such as chicken, duck and fish, which I couldn’t usually eat. I was so greedy that I grabbed a piece of cured pork ribs secretly with my hands before the adults came to the table... "

"You still say I'm greedy! I never stole anything to eat when I was a child!" He Tao took the opportunity to flaunt herself.

"I was stupid at that time, I didn't understand at all!" Fu Shi continued with a chuckle, "It happened that my father came into the main room and caught me. I was so scared that I threw the ribs away. I am young and stupid. , I thought I wouldn’t be scolded if I threw it away. My father picked up the broom and beat me up, and he didn’t allow me to cry! After the beating, he asked me if I knew I was wrong? I said yes, and my father asked, then you are wrong What's wrong, I said I shouldn't steal food, my father threw my head again and asked, what else? I said no, I haven't done anything wrong."

"I see, your father is still mad at you for throwing away the pork ribs, saying that you don't value food!" He Tao clapped his hands.

"Yes, that's right. My father said that I added more mistakes to my mistakes!" Fu Shi said embarrassedly, touching the back of his head: "He said that he would hit me again, and he said that the more beatings would make my memory last longer! My mother, let me see. When my father hit me with a broom, I ran over to grab the broom. Let me tell you that my mother loves me very much. She never scolded me since I was a child, let alone beat me! I was not beaten later, but my father and mother Fight!"

"..." Granny is tough!However, she was too used to children, fortunately she died early, hey, no, "Bah bah bah", He Tao thought that he should take it as a warning.Judging from the current situation, Fu Shi has completely inherited her mother-in-law's childlike character, so she should harden her heart and insist on the role of father-in-law.

"My mother was so ruthless, she scratched my father's face several times, and in the end it was my second uncle and second aunt who persuaded them to leave." Qiu's face looked like he was eating a reunion dinner, grinning so much that his mouth reached the back of his head, he took a sip of tea and continued, "However, even so, my father still punished me and forbade me from having the reunion dinner at the table!"

"At night, I went to bed, and my father came into my room with a bowl of pork ribs," Fu Shi seemed to have returned to that night more than ten years ago.

Father Fu asked him to eat cured pork ribs. Although he was hungry, he didn't dare to stretch out his hand, for fear of being beaten by Father Fu again.Father Fu grabbed the ribs and poked him in the mouth, and he dared to chew.

"What do you want to eat, can't you wait for the banquet to be eaten openly? You don't learn well at a young age, you steal needles at the age of three, and you steal gold when you grow up. You are not allowed to do this again in the future!"

"Your parents have worked hard to buy a grain of rice at home. It is unfilial to waste food!"

"You are Dad's only son, Dad can't let you grow up to be like Zhang Ergou!"

Fu Shi said to He Tao sullenly: "Although my father is fierce, he loves me just as much as my mother."

"..." Your father taught you a lesson for nothing!Think about the origin of Fu Shi's 200 taels of silver, where is it upright?He also helps other people raise their sons. If Father Fu knows, he can get out of the ground and beat him up again!

But seeing Fu Shiyan's babbling, He Tao didn't want to talk nonsense with her, so he changed the subject abruptly and asked, "Who is Zhang Ergou? Why did the father-in-law say that about him?"

"Brother Ergou is a few years older than me. I used to play with him when I was young. Once he took me to steal cherries from Grandma Rong's house, and I was bitten by Grandma Rong's dog. My father knew about it After beating me up, she led me to the door to apologize to Grandma Rong, and my mother chased Zhang Ergou with tongs and beat him, saying that if he dared to lead me to harm, I would beat him to death."

"..." My lord, the corner of He Tao's mouth twitched, this is really protecting the child to the bottom line!

"Brother Ergou really didn't dare to play with me anymore." Fu Shi said with some emotion: "Actually, he's not that bad. When the dog chased us, he still protected me! It's just that he is usually windy. The evaluation is not good, my parents have a prejudice against him."

"What's wrong with him?" He Tao's interest was aroused.

"It's all said by his stepmother. That woman speaks bad things about Ergou all day long, telling people everywhere that he is treacherous, lazy, and disobedient to her. People in the village don't like Ergou anymore after hearing too much. My father and I So does my mother."

"His father doesn't care? Sure enough, as long as there is a stepmother, there must be a stepfather!" He Tao said.

Fu Shi glanced at her, remembering that she had said the same thing to Mrs. Cheng before, he felt a little irritable, and explained sullenly: "No, his father died within two years after marrying her stepmother. Only Ergou and her stepmother are left."

"She didn't remarry?" That stepmother was not a good person when she heard it, the line of "raising the only son of her deceased husband in good faith" was not her style at all!
"She was married for the second time, and the man died before her. She has a bad reputation. She can't remarry, so she can only be a widow in the Zhang family."

"That's it!" It turned out that she was a widow because she had to!He Tao asked again: "You said that she can't get married, and she has no children, so she has to raise Ergou Zhang? Why are you treating Zhang Ergou so badly!"

"Who knows what she's thinking!"

"What about Zhang Ergou?" Although Rongshu Village is a big village, every household can get married, but there is no such person as Zhang Ergou in the memory of the original owner.

"Brother Ergou joined the army. He stole the household registration book without telling his stepmother. He went to the station in the south for ten years."

That year, Fu Shiniang Qin's family passed away, and Fu Shi had just returned to Rongshu Village from his natal Qin's family. Except for his second uncle Fu Quan, everyone kept away from him like a plague god.But Zhang Ergou came to the door suddenly, and chatted with Fu Shi about the embarrassing things when he was a child. He said that Mrs. Qin chased him with a poker and said how much he envied Fu Shi for having a good mother to protect him.Before leaving, he told Fu Shi that he planned to go to the recruitment office to enroll in the army.

Fu Shi had finally found someone who could talk, and he was very reluctant, so he advised him not to go.

Zhang Ergou replied, "I have to go. If I don't go, I will stay at home. If I stay any longer, I will really stink for the rest of my life!"

"Hey, wait a minute, does Zhang Ergou's family live in the bamboo forest to the west of the village, and her stepmother's surname is Gao?" He Tao suddenly remembered such a person.

"Yes!" Fu Shi nodded.

The original owner was only five or six years old when Zhang Ergou joined the army, and he really didn't remember this person, but his stepmother Gao's original owner Gao Min was very impressed.

Gao once left Rongshu Village for five years.

It is said that she herself said that her stepson was vicious, rebellious and unfilial, not to mention that she went to join the army without telling her, and even sold all the land in the family before leaving, trying to starve her to death!She first returned to her natal family, but was rejected by her brother and sister-in-law, and was kicked out again within a year.It happened that a rich family in the county was recruiting a maid. Although they thought she was too old, they pitied her for being desperate, so they accepted her.Later, the whole family moved, and it was difficult for her to leave her homeland, so she returned to Rongshu Village and continued to be a widow.

She bought a few acres of land, planted crops, and lived a closed life like other widows.

Gao Min lived in a remote place, and the villagers didn't think much of it at first, but after a long time, the sharp-eyed daughter-in-law began to notice that something was wrong. Men from other villages came and went in Gao's yard from time to time, and she was also helped with the work in the field. .

The people in the village felt that something was wrong, and it was immoral!

However, Gao's cleverness is that she doesn't provoke people in the village, no one comes to catch her in bed, and no one can prove that she stole someone.The women in the village also scolded her behind her back, and gave her the vivid nickname "High Broken Shoes"!
Mrs. Gao herself is indifferent, and now she is still living a life of debauchery that seems to be closed.

The most famous joke about her is that when a shopkeeper comes to sell things in the village, he will go to the bamboo forest in the west of the village to ask for water. Once he drinks the water, it lasts two hours.

"However, Zhang Ergou is ruthless enough. I heard that he not only sold the fields, but also threw all the rice and grain into the cesspit!" He Tao shared gossip with Fu Shi.However, if Mrs. Gao ruined his reputation first, he can be regarded as a famous teacher, with mixed reputations.

Fu Shi glanced at He Tao and said nothing.

Zhang Ergou wanted to kill Gao Shi directly at the beginning, but it was not because she ruined Zhang Ergou's reputation, but because she actually touched Zhang Ergou's bed in the middle of the night!There's no need to tell your wife about this kind of thing, it's disgusting!

(End of this chapter)