Leisurely Farmer's Family: A Strong Man and His Broken Leg Son-in-law

Today is a fine day as usual, the sun is shining with warm light, the remaining snow on the ground is beginning to melt, and the frozen soil is also beginning to melt.

Before she got home, Liu Yu's soles were covered in mud. The road was still quite far. When passing through a forest, Liu Yu picked up a branch as thick as a bamboo pole and scraped the mud off her soles as she walked.

When I was crossing the Qingshi Bridge, I heard a woman cursing, and the villagers who were joining in the fun were also talking nonsense!

"The old thief that God is going to kill just smokes my house's firewood. He even spares the chickens that I have raised for two years. Those are egg-laying chickens. Why doesn't God strike down with lightning and kill this beast?"

Xu Liang's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Li, was so angry that she cursed loudly when she opened her mouth.

Someone in the village had their things stolen, and Liu Yu was a little surprised. Although Zhuyuan Village was not rich, there were few people stealing from people. The last scoundrel with thief hands had been kicked out of the village by the village chief for climbing on the wall of the widow's house. .

"Did you hear anything at night? Maybe it was dragged away by a weasel." Someone said.

"The weasel still burns firewood. My firewood is missing by at least one load!"

"Don't worry, everyone is helping you find the thief!" The woman who just spoke up continued to ask: "I really didn't hear any movement. This is drawing firewood and catching chickens. It doesn't matter. Now, the chicken can still be caught easily!"

Li Shi calmed down after hearing this, frowned and thought seriously: "There seems to be some movement. I was sleeping relatively deeply, and I heard a rooster crow in a trance, followed by a wild cat calling, and I just thought it was a cat knocking me down. What, startled the chicken in the chicken coop!"

"This is probably the thief. Spring hasn't started yet, and wild cats won't call it spring at this time!"

Liu Yu was outside with a basket on her back. She almost understood what was going on by listening and guessing. It turned out that when Aunt Xu's family let the chickens out of the chicken pen this morning, she found a few old hens.

Several people in the family were looking for chickens in front of and behind the house, and found that some of the firewood stamped by the firewood crew behind the house had also been taken away. Only then did they realize that there was a thief, and they immediately panicked.

I was busy taking stock of other valuables at home. Fortunately, there were many pigs at home, and there was money and food. The only missing items were an old hen and a load of chopping firewood.

To be honest, their village is at the foot of Cuifeng Mountain. No matter which village is short of firewood, their village will not be short of firewood. There are all kinds of shrubs, weeds, dead trees and branches all over the mountain. As long as you have hands and legs, your home will always have enough. .

There are few people who are short-sighted and smoke other people's firewood. If they are caught, it will be embarrassing. From now on, if anyone lacks a needle and a thread, he will be the number one suspect.

Suddenly, Liu Yu thought of the chicken that Xiu Xiu brought out of the kitchen yesterday, and then shook her head and objected. The Tian Fugui family killed the chicken first, and the Xu family lost the chicken behind. The time did not match.

"Did someone kill chickens in your house this morning?" Someone wanted to go to the same place as Liu Yu and asked hurriedly.

"That's not true. Who kills chickens so early in the morning?"

Li shook her head. She originally thought that the location of her family's homestead was not very good. It was at the back of the village and it was inconvenient to get in and out. If the mountain was closed due to heavy snow any year, she would have to worry about wild beasts coming down the mountain to hurt people.

Every time I think about this bad thing, I have to comfort myself with other benefits. Although it is located at the foot of the mountain, it is still safe, and thieves will not go through the village and go to the last house to steal.

In the more than ten years she has lived here, she has not seen a single wild animal, but thieves have targeted her home.

These old houses at home have lost even the last bit of good.

The angry Mrs. Li cursed again.

"You should be more careful in the past two days and take good care of the livestock and other things at home. Don't let anyone take them away again." Luo Shi, the village chief's eldest daughter-in-law, said.

When the people nearby heard about it, they all nodded their heads and became alert in their hearts. They all decided that even if the noise was a bit more unpleasant, they would also bring the chickens into the house at night.

Those who raise pigs at home are even more worried. Unlike chickens, they can be raised in any room or main room. How can they hide the pigs in the house? Seeing that the twelfth lunar month is approaching, the New Year pigs will be sold in more than half a month. The village is so busy A thief is really, really a disaster.

The villagers cursed the thief in their hearts. Mr. Li had been scolding him all morning. Now he gathered his emotions, put back his hair and continued to curse along the path in the village.

Those who liked to join in the fun also followed, stopping behind Mr. Li.

The people dispersed in twos and threes, and Liu Yu rushed home with a basket on her back. Halfway through, she met a few men, and Liu Yu greeted them according to their seniority.

"Ah Yu! Your eldest brother and the others just went up the mountain, alas!"

"Uncle Huang, something happened."

Seeing the indignation in the eyes of these people, Liu Yu hurriedly stopped and asked.

"Hey! I don't know any of the evil smokers. All the bait on the trap pits we dug yesterday was taken away. There was not a single grain nest left in the nearly twenty trap pits. How could he not choke to death? !”

Huang Xin cursed angrily, and the men on the side also echoed: "We also took a look at your trap pit. There must have been bait on it. Everything is gone, only a stick tied with a hemp rope is left!"

He also stole grain pancakes from the trap pit. Can this thief have any future? After Liu Yu said goodbye to a few people, he hurried home.

When I got home, I heard from Liu Fusheng and Nian that Liu Fan and others had gone up the mountain.

Liu Yu put down her backpack and picked up a bamboo stick and was about to go up the mountain. Nian stopped her and said, "It's enough for your brother and the others to go there. There are a lot of grain pancakes placed on the trap pits. It's just a matter of your eyes slipping. Many people don't want to go here." Used in China.”

After saying that, he dragged Liu Yu to the kitchen and asked if she had eaten the morning meal. Nian was so angry that she scolded Yan again: "This damn woman is getting more and more shameless. Her relatives came to her house and she didn't even have food." "Liu, is this going to make her family poor or something? She's so stingy that she won't be able to make a fortune in this life."

While Liu Yu was heating up the meal, she took the dry cotton shoes from Liu Fusheng and put them on. She didn't excuse Yan, and let Nian scold him, which made him feel relieved.

"Your eldest sister and your second sister are okay, and all the children at home are okay!" After scolding her, Nian took a spoon and waded into the gurgling pimple soup while asking her two granddaughters how they were doing.

"The second sister is okay. When I went there, the second brother-in-law was chopping firewood. You Zhu was sleeping on the kang. Xiao Jing was younger but woke up earlier than his brother. He didn't feel cold too. He clamored for the second sister to get dressed. Going down to the kang."

"Didn't you see her parents-in-law?"

"No, there are only two sisters in the family!"

Nian pursed her lips and continued, "Where is your eldest sister? Your eldest sister and Xiaoxue are watching well."

Liu Yu paused, but decided to tell the truth and tell everything he saw in the Wu family.

After hearing this, Nian scolded her again, and finally sighed: "Forget it, you will get married some time later, let Xiaoxue live with that girl for a while, and then send her back at the end of the year. It's such a pity to see a pair of eccentric grandparents like this. "

"Although your uncle also likes his grandson, he has never treated Luya and Brother Qi badly every day. Even if the married girl throws water on him, there is no girl who treats him as an outsider while still at home."

Then he said angrily: "When your eldest sister and your second sister were not married, they said that your eldest sister was stable and blessed. Now it seems that she is not as good as your second sister. When she was a girl, she had an unshakable temperament. How could she be like this?" He will look like a decent person now!”

When Liu Yu saw that the old lady hated iron, she didn't know what to say. The eldest sister in his memory had always had such a temperament. According to adults, she was steady, peaceful and caring about the overall situation. If she married someone with such a temperament, her parents-in-law were kind and kind. People can live their lives in peace and stability.

My mother-in-law, Mr. Yan, was unlucky. On the outside, my father-in-law, Wu Boliang, looked like he was holding a bowl of water evenly, but on the inside, he was devoted to his two sons and their family. He usually only used nice words to keep his eldest sister and brother-in-law in check.

One of them talked, the other scolded, and that was how the meal was finished.

While washing the pot, they suddenly heard shouting and cursing outside. Liu Yu and Nian looked at each other, not knowing what was going on, so they got up to look.

"It seems that Aunt Xu and Third Sister Shui are fighting!"

Changsheng came back from the fence gate on crutches and saw the two of them were about to go outside to take a look, so he hurriedly said!

The two men actually started fighting, and Liu Yu didn't care about washing the pots and dishes, and walked out quickly as soon as she took off her apron.

Hey!

As soon as Liu Yu walked out of the fence gate, she looked eastward and saw two people rolling on the ground covered in mud at the door of Zhang's house not far away. Judging from that appearance, Shui Sanmei was slightly better. There were already women and husbands there. He rushed forward and tried to separate the two.