At this time, the Zhu family’s old house had just had breakfast. Mr. Zhu was sitting in the yard, smoking a dry pipe, wearing a coarse green shirt, frowning at the clothes hanging on the rope in the yard.
The new green cloth stitching was washed yesterday by Madam Zhu and her third daughter-in-law, Mrs. Liu, and it has not been dried yet.
"Old lady, who asked you to wash it? If someone comes, what do you want me to wear?" Mr. Zhu took a few puffs of his dry cigarette, but he still couldn't hold it back. He turned to complain to Mrs. Zhu who was touching the butt of the chicken.
A few days ago, Mrs. Zhu felt that her chickens had not laid enough eggs. She suspected that her greedy daughter-in-law had eaten them, so she came to touch the chicken butts early in the morning. In fact, she did not touch the chicken butts but used her hands.
Test the position between the chicken's abdomen and buttocks, and gently pinch it with your hands to see if there is any hard object. If there is an obvious hard object, it means that the egg is about to be laid. Mrs. Zhu is a veteran. Just touch it and you will know what the next day will be.
There will be several chickens laying eggs, and the accuracy is as high as 99.9%. If the number is wrong tomorrow, Mrs. Zhu will have several daughters-in-law.
"You've been wearing it for more than half a month. If you don't wash it, you won't be able to tell what color it is. Besides, who is here? I haven't seen anyone come for more than half a month. Aren't you going to the field today? You are dressed so formally.
What."
Mrs. Zhu was busy counting. When she heard Mr. Zhu speak, she raised her head and said something.
"What's wrong, mom, there are few eggs again?" The fourth aunt came out of the room and saw Mrs. Zhu touching the butt of the chicken, so she asked in a fuss, and then quickly distanced herself, "That's not true.
My mother, I’ve been so angry lately that I can’t eat eggs.”
"Hey, sister-in-law, my mother didn't say it was you, why are you so nervous?" The voice came out before the eldest aunt in the main room came out.
"Ah, sister-in-law, you are probably nervous, but I am not." The fourth aunt covered her mouth and smiled.
Just like that, the yard became lively. When Aunt Zhu Ping'an came out of her room, the yard was like a pot of porridge. It was boiling and almost drying up.
"That's enough. How big is an egg? It's from the fourth child's family. Where is the fourth child? The third child has been in the ground for a while. Why hasn't the fourth child moved?" Mr. Zhu couldn't stand it anymore. He smoked the pot.
He knocked on the chair leg and glared at Mrs. Zhu. Really, this old woman can't even take care of these daughters-in-law.
"It's from the fourth child's house. I asked you to call the fourth child. Why does it take so long?"
Old Mrs. Zhu was glared at by Mr. Zhu, and she didn't dare to express her anger at Mr. Zhu, so she had to hold the fourth daughter-in-law to practice.
"Mom..." the fourth aunt laughed sarcastically, "Shou Xin... After eating, he wanted to lie down for a while to regain his energy before going to the ground. He didn't want to kowtow to the end. I'm afraid he won't be able to get off the ground..."
When Mr. Zhu heard this, his face darkened. He, the fourth child, was useless.
"I kowtowed to the end. Is it heavy or not? Really, you were so careless, so just rest." Mrs. Zhu was very concerned.
"Kowtow to the head, why didn't he..." Mr. Zhu's face was dark, and before he could say the next words, he saw that the door of his house was pushed open.
"Uncle Zhu. Good thing, good thing. Clean up the yard quickly, something good will happen." The man who ran over first was the man who was scolded by the old farmer. He was out of breath and panting.
"What's wrong?" Mr. Zhu and the others asked quickly.
Before the man opened his mouth, he heard an old farmer's voice coming from the door, and then saw the old farmer coming panting.
"What's going on? I'm not bragging to you, Brother Zhu. I'm the first to know about this good news. Your boss..."
When the old farmer came in, he didn't even bother to thank him, and started talking out of breath.
But before he could tell the key information, the words were picked up by the aunt who came in from behind the door.
"Your eldest son has been admitted as a scholar."
"Still number one."
"But he got so arrogant that the county officials started crackling firecrackers before they even entered the village. The horses didn't even dare to ride. They had to walk along, boasting and beating, and they couldn't even pull them back."
Seven aunts and eight aunts came in one after another, and they all added to the conversation with their voices and emotions, and the scenes blended together, as if they were present at that time.
"Really?" Mr. Zhu, who was looking grim and angry, was overjoyed. He suddenly turned from anger to joy, and his face burst into laughter.
"It's true. The official in the county who announced the good news was setting off firecrackers at the entrance of the village. The one who announced the good news will come soon." People replied in a hurry, unwilling to be outdone.
After receiving an affirmative answer, Mr. Zhu immediately dropped the treasured tobacco pouch in his hand. He looked as if he was more than thirty years younger than he was. He leaped three feet into the air and with lightning speed, lifted the piece of tobacco hanging on the rope.
He took the still wet green cloth into his hands and walked straight to the room... to change clothes.
Mrs. Zhu didn't care about touching the chicken's butt anymore. She threw the old hen aside which made her eyes roll when she was touched. She stood up with a flushed face, as if time had gone back to when she was a girl and the matchmaker led Zhu, who was still a young man.
The moment the old man walked in...
bingo?
When the eldest aunt, who was arguing with the fourth and third aunts, heard this, she felt as if a god descended from the world in the game. Instantly, her health and spirit levels were full, and her combat power increased a hundred times. She looked at the two sisters-in-law.
His eyes were full of scorn: You two scum, with a combined combat power of only five, are not worthy of being my opponents...
"Yeah, I almost forgot. Yesterday Shouyi hit his head. I boiled an egg for my fourth son to reduce the swelling. Hehehe, I almost wronged my sister-in-law. Damn it, hehehe... Really, my sister-in-law.
If there are too many, just forgive my younger siblings. When my eldest brother left, I had a dream, saying that a golden toad was jumping into your house. I asked someone to tell a fortune and they said that my eldest brother was destined to go to high school. Sure enough,
, Brother said he hit the mark."
At this moment, the fourth aunt covered her mouth and apologized to the eldest aunt again and again. She even blamed herself for everything that she did not do yesterday, and she was rushing to take it, fearing that the third sister-in-law would take the lead. It seemed that this was too much.
Like something glorious.
"Congratulations, sister-in-law." The third aunt is not a flatterer, so she couldn't help but say congratulations.
"That's it, congratulations to you all, I have thought you are blessed a long time ago."
"It's not that bad. In the past few years, our village has only produced a scholar named Shouren."
"Our village has been hit by your Shouren family."
The villagers who arrived at the Zhu family compound one after another started complimenting the eldest aunt.
"Where are you, sit down quickly, we are all from the village. Oh, by the way, there is a son from the second family who took the exam with his father. Did he pass the exam too?" The eldest aunt smiled.
She couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear, and asked everyone to sit on the ground in a ladylike manner, even though there were only two stools in the yard... And at the end, she didn't forget to mention Zhu Ping'an, even though she had just heard that one of the people in the village had been lucky, but...
Wanted to mention it.
"No, it's your Shouren who won the prize." The villagers said all over the place, full of compliments.
As a result, the smile on the eldest aunt's face became more ladylike, and the laughter became more heartfelt.
If it were modern times, music should be playing at this time: I finally waited for you, but fortunately I didn’t give up... (To be continued.)
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