The old lady walked a few steps forward, took Xiaodouzi's hand, and looked at her with a smile: "Don't pick him up at noon, you can eat by yourself."
"knew."
Lin Lan agreed with a smile, waved to the two of them, turned around and heard Xiaodouzi asking the old lady if his new clothes looked good.
The old lady kept saying it looked good. Lin Lan turned around and saw an old man and a young boy walking home hand in hand, and felt warm in his heart.
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After Zhang Yazhen had eaten, Xiong Jianjun, who looked at the two claw marks on his neck with a blue face, walked away with the hoe. Then he stood up and rubbed his aching arms.
He untied his waistband and remained on the bamboo chair, walked to the courtyard and stood there looking at the roof of Lin Lan's house for a while, then carried the bamboo pole on his back and went out towards the brigade's pig farm.
Sun Xiuhua tied up an old apron and walked slowly towards the pig farm. As she approached the pig farm, she saw Zhang Yazhen walking in front and stopped her with a loud voice: "Yazhen, what are you doing so early in the morning?"
Zhang Yazhen turned around and said with a smile: "Sister Sun, I'm going to cut the grass and feed the pigs."
Sun Xiuhua glanced around and lowered her voice: "Is there someone from your natal family next door?"
"Yes! I heard that they also sent two pigs and a dozen chickens. It's nothing!" Zhang Yazhen looked around and raised her head, "I heard someone said yesterday that the little widow was doing a small business in the eucalyptus forest.
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"Really?" Sun Xiuhua looked at her with shining eyes.
Sun Xiuhua rolled her eyes at her: "I'm not a sweetheart like Zheng Sanmei." When she thought of receiving a black beating from Lin Lan, she hated Lin Lan and Zheng Sanmei to death.
Sun Xiuhua nodded, turned her head to look at Zou Zhonggui, and saw scratch marks all over his face. She shouted in surprise: "Ouch! Look at this face. Young man, what bad thing have you done? Your wife scratched you."
Like this?"
Zou Zhonggui lowered his head and pulled his hat down.
Sun Xiuhua opened the storage room of the pig farm, scooped out a ladle of rice bran and grass bran and mixed it with the pig food. He lifted it into the pig pen and poured it into the pig trough. He filled the dozen or so pig troughs with pig food in twos and twos.
Regardless of whether the pig food in the pig trough keeps flowing out, close the door, turn around and go back.
After hearing this, Sun Xiuhua walked straight to the bamboo forest in the backyard. She and Xu Chunyan had not been on speaking terms since she married into the Liu family. At first she thought she was fake, but later she always felt that Xu Chunyan was jealous of her having a son, her parents-in-law, and her uncle's treatment of her.
Zou Zhonggui nodded: "I'll wait for you at home." He thought he had to thank Aunt Lin Lan, otherwise where would he find such a long-term meal ticket.
"The butthole seller..." Sun Xiuhua's eyes flashed fiercely, "I will go to the eucalyptus forest in the afternoon, and if I catch the little widow, I will bring her back!"
Liu Jinbao chewed his teeth: "Damn it! I gave you a hundred yuan, what do you want?"
Liu Jinbao and Zou Zhonggui walked to the rice field on the other side of the ditch one after another, and turned back to look at Zou Zhonggui fiercely.
Zhang Yazhen grabbed her and said, "Sister Sun, don't go and arrest her. Ask the captain to bring someone to arrest her."
Zou Zhonggui glanced at him and said, "It's up to you. I'll go find Captain He and exchange it with a captain for a hundred dollars. He'll definitely be willing." After that, he turned around and left.
Zhang Yazhen looked at her hurried look, thought of Zheng Sanmei's fate, and suddenly felt regretful, feeling that she should have listened to Xiong Jianjun and not provoke Lin Lan.
After hearing this, Sun Xiuhua nodded repeatedly: "Yes! After I feed the pigs, I will go back to find his uncle."
Zhang Yazhen shook her head: "No, I have to go to the private plot to cut the grass."
"Okay, the pigsty stinks, so I won't keep you here." After saying this, Sun Xiuhua didn't care that Zhang Yazhen was still standing there, pulled out the rope with the key from his waistband, and walked towards the pigsty.
Liu Jinbao stared at him: "Old noble, keep your word, is this one hundred yuan the last time you ask me for money?"
"Wait!" Liu Jinbao hurriedly stopped him.
"Let me ask, what's going on?" Sun Xiuhua shouted, feeling a little strange, turned around, opened the door and chased out. When she saw that the two of them had gone far, she turned and walked towards Liu Guozhi's house.
Zhang Yazhen curled her lips and shook her head: "I heard what two passers-by said in the courtyard, who knows whether it is true or not! You said last time that you wanted me to hear the news about the widow, so I came to tell you. You didn't call me, and I forgot
Already."
Sun Xiuhua looked at Zhang Yazhen anxiously: "Will you go in and sit for a while?" She wanted to quickly feed the pigs and go back to Liu Guozhi, tell him about Lin Lan's small business, and catch her walking around in a dog poop bag.
She takes revenge.
"Mom~, why do you talk so much!" Liu Jinbao hurriedly pushed her into the courtyard, closed the courtyard door, and walked out with Zou Zhonggui.
Zou Zhonggui looked at him coldly: "For the sake of you and my brother, I'll give you another hundred and forget about it."
Zou Zhonggui looked at him seriously and patted his chest: "A real man, every spit is a nail!"
Zou Zhonggui lost his smile after his success and turned back with a cold face: "Young Master Liu, do you have any other instructions?"
Zou Zhonggui looked at Liu Jinbao with a gloomy face and said nothing.
Liu Jinbao bit his back teeth, threw away the cigarette butt, crushed it with his foot a few times, and looked up at him: "Okay! I'll send it to you after work is done in the afternoon."
Zhang Yazhen hurriedly grabbed her and told her: "Sister Sun, please don't say it was me who said it! The smelly widow lives next door to my house, and I'm afraid she will attack my children."
Zou Zhonggui showed no sign of weakness and pointed at his face fiercely: "Look at this face, I gave you a hundred yuan, and you let those two women scratch your face like this, will you do it?"
Liu Jinbao watched Zou Zhonggui walk away with his head held high. He went home sadly, stole one hundred yuan from the box and put it into his pocket. Thinking that the one hundred yuan would soon be someone else's, he felt a dull pain in his heart.
"One hundred yuan?" Liu Jinbao growled with a livid face: "You think it's straw paper! A strong laborer who works early in the morning and then works late in the day can't earn it for two years. I'll give you fifty at most, don't be hesitant!"
Liu Jinbao looked back and saw Sun Xiuhua: "Mom, why are you back so soon?"
"Lao Gui, you are relying on me, right?"
Xu Chunyan didn't even look at her, she was still smearing the paste: "Weaving a dustpan in the bamboo forest."
When I was almost home, I saw Liu Jinbao and a tall man standing at the door of the courtyard from a distance, saying something angrily?
Sun Xiuhua walked over: "Jinbao, who is he?"
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When Sun Xiuhua arrived at Liu Guozhi's house, she saw Xu Chunyan smearing paste and making cloth shells in the yard. She stepped forward with a smile and said, "Sister-in-law, is his uncle at home?"
She touched her painful and panicked arms and cursed secretly: You are a bitch, fighting like a girl, only fighting in the dark.
Xu Chunyan raised her head, glanced at her back, turned her head and spat.
She hated that Sun Xiuhua was dominating the Liu family by giving birth to a son. When the old man and the old lady were around, they supported her and all the housework was her responsibility.
In order to be lazy and eat well, I make excuses for Liu Jinbao all day long. Today my baby will have a headache and tomorrow his butthole will hurt, and I am not afraid of cursing my child.
After the two elders left and the family was separated, Xu Chunyan thought that her hard life was over and she no longer had to serve her second ancestor. Little did she know that Liu Guozhi was still the same as before the family was separated, and treated Liu Jinbao better than the three daughters in the family.