That morning, after breakfast, all the men in the Li family except Li Dazhi and Li Youzhi followed Old Man Li to the fields. Erlang also led his younger brothers and sisters out to dig wild vegetables and shoot pigweed. Feng had eaten. Finally, he unexpectedly asked his old daughter to wash the dishes.
"Mom, washing the dishes is greasy and disgusting. You need some sisters-in-law to do it!" Upon hearing this, Yuxiu looked at her white and tender hands and was playing coquettishly on Feng's arm.
"Yuxiu, be good. Mom wants to talk to your sisters-in-law about something!" Feng patted Yuxiu's hand and coaxed.
"Then let Zizhen and the others wash it!" Yuxiu looked at her hands and said with a puffed mouth.
"You!" Ms. Feng looked at her daughter who was holding her back and couldn't see the situation clearly. She didn't know what to do. This girl didn't want to think about when Ms. Feng would let her old daughter enter the kitchen.
"Mistress, little aunt, don't be angry, I'll go wash it!" Zizhen quickly rolled her eyes and then smiled and took Yuxiu's hand.
"Okay, Zizhen, you can go ahead!" Feng smiled at Zizhen and nodded, then tapped Yuxiu's forehead with her finger and said, "Girl, you are such a big person. Your niece is not as good as you, she looks like she is going to be engaged..." To Feng, Yuxiu is a sweet burden. Feng has always loved this little girl very much.
"Mom, I just hate the oil fumes. The clothes I made for you during the Chinese New Year were nothing short of praise." Yu Xiu said nonchalantly. Among farmers, Yu Xiu's first-hand embroidery work is indeed rare. , after the beginning of spring, Mrs. Feng often dressed up and went out to make a name for her daughter.
"Mom, let Zizhen go. Our little sister-in-law is born to be pampered. She will have to marry a man who can be a servant. Don't forget your family then." Mrs. Yang held up her handkerchief. Wiping the corners of his mouth, he said with a smile, what he meant was that he was dissatisfied with what Feng and Yuxiu did. This unmarried sister-in-law was born to be pampered. Shouldn't girls of the younger generation be pampered?
"Haha, sister-in-law, you are making fun of me! When I get married to a good family, I will buy some maids for my family." Yuxiu did not understand the deep meaning of her sister-in-law's words.
"You,,,,,," Mrs. Feng was thinking of saying a few words to Mrs. Yang, but after hearing what her daughter said, she couldn't say much more.
Seeing this, Zizhen quickly walked out to wash the dishes.
"The life in this family is not easy now! Now that Yuxiu and Lao Wu are about to get married, next year the eldest brother and Lao Wu will have to take the provincial examination. There is nothing I can do about this huge amount of money. No, no, a few days ago, your father-in-law was so anxious and angry. I am really worried!" After speaking, Mrs. Feng wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and then secretly glanced at the expressions of several daughters-in-law. .
Mrs. Yang became anxious when she heard this. She suddenly complained about her poverty to several of her daughters-in-law. Could it be that she was using the private money she had saved after finally doing embroidery work. Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zhang were speechless and secretly communicated with each other. After exchanging glances, they lowered their heads and remained silent. However, little Feng actually shared his worries with Feng in a rare moment.
"Mom, look what you said, there is no money in this family, and we, the big family, have to come up with a solution together! There is no chaos at home and outside the family, thanks to the support of you and our father. "You two should take it easy. If you have something to do, just give instructions to us juniors..." Xiao Feng's crackling words were a rare thoughtfulness. People who didn't know the details would definitely think that This is her biological daughter! The three Yangs looked at each other and couldn't figure out which play the aunt and nephew were singing.
"Hey, it's all my fault as a mother-in-law that I'm incompetent. No, the school is about to start. This year, Wu Lang and Liu Lang are already eight years old and it's time to go to school. There are two more students in this family. Aren't I worried about the maintenance of these brothers? The father-in-law of this family has not saved a few taels of silver. I want to discuss it with you and my wives. The father-in-law needs to prepare money for the eldest son and the fifth child to take the exam. For the time being, we will not care about the next generation going to school. Now that your respective families can have some savings, just use them first. When the eldest and fifth eldest children win the lottery, the family will be fine. Then they can recover. ?" After Mrs. Feng finished speaking, she glared at Ms. Yang who was about to speak. The threatening look in her eyes made Ms. Yang startled. She remembered that her husband was also rushing to take the exam, so she was speechless.
Mrs. Liu was too lazy to speak. She said it was a discussion, but in fact she was just informing her. Besides, the two sisters-in-law had no objections. Wouldn't it make her mother-in-law even more annoyed if she spoke by herself?
Mrs. Zhang’s two children are still young, and she hopes that her uncle and brother-in-law will be successful so that they can promote their own children in the future. In addition, in Mrs. Zhang’s heart, her mother-in-law has already accumulated great power, even though she secretly belongs to the three-bedroom family. I complained, but I was speechless.
Little Feng saw that she had benefited from it, with bright eyes and a smile on her face: "Mom, look what you said, isn't this also for the big guys? When the fifth child of our family wins the lottery, we can forget about mother, forget about mother. Are we, brothers and sisters-in-law? Isn’t this what we call it, when we are in trouble, we all have to work together, and we all understand, right, sister-in-law, third brother and sister-in-law, and fourth brother-in-law!"
Yang thought to herself: Could it be that my husband-in-law won't win the lottery? The past few times were just bad luck. He is a bitch who looks down on others. When our husband-in-law wins the lottery, let's see how I deal with you! Then he smiled and said : "What the second brother and sister said makes sense. I didn't expect that our second brother and sister are so knowledgeable. I haven't noticed it in the past! I'm so blind!"
"Now that mother has spoken, how dare we, as daughters-in-law, not listen. It is better to spare some time to do some embroidery work and borrow some from my mother's house. This year, the children will be able to live happily together." Ms. Liu said softly. He said, no matter how dissatisfied she is, Mrs. Yang did not dare to say anything because her husband-in-law was rushing to take the exam and asked for money. Xiao Feng was obviously bribed and coaxed by Ms. Feng. Otherwise, with her personality, the younger generation in the family would not be able to say anything. All of them were paid by their father-in-law to go to school, but when Liu Lang came to her home, he had to pay for it on his own. How could she be so calm and help Feng speak up!
After hearing this, Madam Feng looked at Madam Zhang, who hugged her youngest daughter Wanzhen tightly, shook her head and said, "I have no objection!"
"In this case, it's up to you to arrange for the children to go to school. If you need to buy something, please tell me in advance and go to town to do it while you're still busy!"
The daughters-in-law nodded and went to work.
In the evening, Sanfang and his family already knew about Shu Xiu.
"Hey, Hui Niang, you have been wronged by following me. Don't worry. After the spring plowing period, I will go to the mountains with Brother Li Gen. This time I secretly asked him to help bring some wild animals to sell. It can also be done. You can get a few pieces in exchange, but don't get angry in a hurry!" Li Sanzhi said, looking at Mrs. Liu who was just embroidering on the kang silently. She was deeply afraid that Mrs. Liu would bother to fix the children's bundles. Li Gen didn't do it before. Li Sanzhi did nothing to persuade him to think more about his family and secretly keep some prey to help him exchange for money. In his opinion, it was unscrupulous and the family could not care about everything.
"It's okay. I've done a lot of embroidery work while lying on the bed in the past few months. I can get a lot of money from selling it when I go to the market tomorrow. Plus, I bought some gifts from my mother and sister when I was three full moons ago. Shu Xiu's money is enough! This spring is the time of famine for those jackals and tigers, so don't be brave and go in! The fact that you can think of bringing the prey to Brother Li Gen in exchange for money is enough to prove that it is better to We, mother and son, take it to heart, so I feel at ease!" Ms. Liu had the three hundred taels as a backing, but she didn't want Li Sanzhi to take the risk of hunting.
"Don't worry, I'll be careful. Just don't go into the mountains!" Li Sanzhi smiled and touched his forehead honestly when he saw that his wife was not angry but still concerned about him.
"Dad, you should have thought this way a long time ago. In the future, my seventh brother and younger brothers will have to go to school, and in the long run, they will also have to take exams. Hey, just relying on my mother to do embroidery work will not be enough even if you are blinded by embroidery. !" Yuezhen took the opportunity to educate her honest father.
"Hey, look at the little head of my precious daughter, she is really thinking far ahead!" Li Sanzhi looked at his daughter, with a pink apple face, less than half the size of his own palm, and blinked. With her round and bright black eyes, her little mouth fluently and joyfully spouted out a long paragraph of words, she couldn't help but feel happy and hugged her.
"Oh, Dad, you stink, and your beard is prickly. Put me down quickly!" Yuezhen wrinkled her pretty little nose, covered it with her hands and shouted.
"I still dislike your father. If he doesn't do the work, where will your food come from?" Li Sanzhi didn't get angry either, and deliberately leaned into his daughter's face.
"Then I won't mind if daddy hugs me after taking a bath!" Yue Zhen's coquettish skills have been perfected in the past few months, becoming more and more natural.
"Okay, okay, you two should stop making trouble. It will get dark soon and you will have to take a bath in the dark!" Ms. Liu said with a smile. The Li family is not a wealthy family and candles cannot be easily afforded. Only Li Dazhi and Li Youzhi have supplies, and even kerosene lamps. If they had been more familiar with each other, Feng would have scolded her as a prodigal woman. The Li family usually took a bath and went to bed when it was dark. At first, Yuezhen was very unhappy. I'm used to it, and I secretly thought, no wonder the ancients gave birth to so many children. There is no entertainment this night, and there are no contraceptive measures, so you are not allowed to exercise to have babies!
Li Sanzhi put Yuezhen on the kang before going out to fetch water and take a bath. The Li family didn't have a special bathroom. Everyone in the house washed in the corner of the room with curtains drawn. Yuezhen was very happy every time she took a bath. She felt uncomfortable and always had to drive her brothers out before washing herself. Even when Ms. Liu asked for help, she found various excuses to push her away. Ms. Liu also laughed at her because she had grown up and realized that she was shy. Yuezhen was speechless after hearing this.
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