Huo Erhuai and Yang were inevitably sad when they brought up the past, so Huo Xi quickly comforted them.
Yang didn't feel sad for long. After all, it had been ten years. It was time to calm down. She looked at Huo Erhuai and said, "His father, do you want to go back to Huojiaba to buy a homestead?"
The status of the son-in-law was looked down upon by the world. Mrs. Yang did not want him to feel regretful.
Huo Erhuai was silent, and Yang Fu pouted and whispered: "None of those people in the Huo family are fuel-efficient."
"What are you talking about!" Yang stopped him.
Yang Fu pursed his lips and stopped talking.
But Huo Xi could tell that Yang Fu didn't want Huo Erhuai to settle down in Huojiaba. He was still young now, so he had to act as a dragster and follow him to Huojiaba.
Huo Erhuai sighed: "Let's go to Yangjiacun and meet the village leader before we talk."
Yang nodded in agreement.
When Huo Erhuai went to the stern to rock the boat and Yang went to the bow to handle the small crabs, Yang Fu pulled Huo Xi and whispered softly.
Now that Huo Xi and Huo Nian were his real nephews, Yang Fu had a lot to say to her.
"No one in the Huo family is good. My brother-in-law always wants to come and fight in the autumn wind as soon as he has some money. They are all people who only care about money. Otherwise, they would not have let my brother-in-law marry into my family. I got a lot of money from selling my son. Every year, my brother-in-law goes back to Huojiaba
He was even scratched."
"So you don't want us to live in Huojiaba?"
Yang Fu nodded: "Well, the Huo family has many things to do."
Huo Xi expressed her understanding, then thought again, "I didn't know about it at the beginning, so Nian'er and I took our father's surname. Why didn't mother tell us to change our names to Yang this time?"
"The Yang family has me. The children my sister gave birth to before were also named Huo after my brother-in-law."
Huo Xi understands.
While talking, the boat swayed and arrived at Yangjia Village in Jiangning County.
Yangjia Village is adjacent to the outer tributary of the Qinhuai River. I heard that there are many fishing boats in the village, but most people only catch some fish and shrimps in the river during the day to sell them, and return to the village to live at night.
Huo Erhuai rowed the boat to the ferry at Yangjiacun, tied the boat rope to the boat-tying stone, and helped his family get off the boat.
All the way into the village, the strangers stared at them curiously, and the familiar ones greeted them from a distance: "It's Da Ya from Jinxi's family. Why are you back in the village?"
Yang held Huo Nian in her arms, greeted the villagers with a smile, and exchanged pleasantries with them from time to time.
After walking and stopping, we passed through the village and arrived at the Cun Zheng's house in the middle of the village, which is also the house of the head of the Yang family.
Yang Guangkui, the patriarch, stared blankly at the cakes and snacks on the table, including a large piece of meat and two jars of rice wine.
The eldest girl from Jinxi's family took her younger brother out of the village to seek a living. She hadn't returned for a long time. Why did she suddenly come back? And she gave him so many gifts?
She looked towards her and Yang Fu, and then looked at the people following her.
"Is Yang Fu already that old?"
"Hello, Grandpa Patriarch."
"Hey, good." Yang Guangkui glanced at Yang Fu happily. Although he was dark and thin, he looked at his spirit and it seemed that he had developed a good temper. Otherwise, he would have been ruined if he entered the Xi family.
Looking at Yang: "Chun Ying, are you going to have something to do when you return to the village this time?"
Yang then reported his intention to Yang Guangkui.
"Are these two children from your family?" Yang Guangkui looked sharply at the boy in Huo Xi and Huo Erhuai's arms.
These two children are so well-raised, white, tender and delicate. They look nothing like Chunying and Huo Erhuai. Shouldn't they look like Yang Fu?
When Yang saw the patriarch looking at the two children, he hurriedly stepped forward and cried miserably: "I have had several pregnancies in the past ten years, and only these two have survived. The patriarch doesn't know how afraid my husband and I are that we will not be able to feed these two children."
, I usually polish my rice and noodles, take care of them carefully, and don’t let my children out of the cabin during leisure time.”
Yang Guangkui nodded, a girl should be pampered. Even if she is pampered, she doesn't look like a fisherman's daughter.
He then heard Mr. Yang say: "I am a little boy, only a hundred days old. His father and I planned for him to start a family in the future. We were afraid that we would not be able to support him, so we thought about going back to the village to buy one or two acres of homestead land.
, build a house in the village and bring them back to live in the village."
"Do you want to live ashore?" You haven't had this idea in ten years, so why did you suddenly have it?
Yang Guangkui looked at the boy in Huo Erhuai's arms, looking at him with curious eyes. Yes, this child looked lively and cute. If he couldn't feed him, Chunying and her husband-in-law would probably cry to death.
He stretched out his hand towards Huo Nian to touch him, but Huo Nian smiled and stretched out his little hand to grab his finger and said oh oh to him, as if saying hello.
Yang Guangkui was very happy and teased him for a while.
Nodding: "It's good that you have this idea. The child is still young and cannot withstand the wind and waves on the river."
Seeing that the clan leader agreed, Yang was very happy.
"It's just this homestead. As you know, our village is close to the capital, and the land price is more expensive than elsewhere." The patriarch glanced at Yang and Huo Erhuai, wondering if they could afford it.
Huo Xi saw the woman from the patriarch's family looking at them, and when Yang was about to speak, he pulled her: "Mom, my brother is hungry, please feed him."
Yang was stunned and glanced at Huo Xi: "Oh, okay." She took Huo Nian and, under the leadership of the patriarch's daughter-in-law, went to a sheltered place to breastfeed Huo Nian.
Huo Xi looked at Huo Erhuai, and Huo Erhuai said: "In these years, I have been thinking about living ashore and living frugally, but I have saved a few taels of silver."
The clan leader nodded, glanced at Huo Xi, and said nothing more.
He just said: "Now that the new dynasty has just been established, many people have flocked to the capital, and the land prices here have also risen. Now one acre of homestead land costs three and a half taels of silver, and one acre of fertile land costs twelve taels of silver. Don't think it's too expensive for you, either.
Now many people in the capital want to buy Zhuangzi, and they have come to our area."
Huo Xi clicked her tongue. Didn't mother say that the homestead only costs three taels?
Huo Erhuai's teeth were also sore. He came to his senses and nodded: "Then my family will buy two acres of homestead land. Yang Fu will grow up in a few years, and we have to set aside a place for him to build a house."
The clan leader felt comforted when he heard his plans for Yang Fu. Without much greeting, he got up and took them to choose a homestead.
Yang fed Huo Nian and followed him in her arms.
The family was walking in the village, and the villagers who got the news came to watch the fun.
I heard that the eldest girl from Yang Jinxi's family returned to the village with her younger brother to buy a homestead to build a house and land. Many people lamented that she had become rich.
The family followed the clan leader to select a homestead in the village. All the good places in the village were picked out. Every family had their children and grandchildren grow up, and families were divided. They had to build houses, and the homesteads had to be found on the outskirts of the village.
After searching around, Yang was not satisfied.
Her house used to be in the middle of the village, with a large place and a brick house. Now it has been bought by the clan elders, and it is impossible to redeem it. She didn't expect that if she wanted to live there again, she would have to live on the outskirts of the village.
Yang frowned. Huo Erhuai and Yang Fu followed behind without saying anything. Huo Xi then walked around to take a look.
She was asked to say that it was good to live in the outskirts, far away from the crowds, quiet and without too much trouble. Choosing a place close to the ferry would make it easier for them to go out.
The family was just watching on a deserted slope when several women came from a distance, shouting "Spring Sakura, Spring Sakura" and walking towards them quickly.
