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

After dinner in the evening, Xu Hong patiently put Lu Yaqi to sleep while lying on the kang.

With a dim light filtering through the window lattice, he gently poked Liu Maolin a few times with his elbow, who was already snoring like thunder.

"Wake up, I have something to tell you!"

"We can't talk about anything tomorrow. I've had a tiring day and have to get up early tomorrow!" Liu Maolin muttered, turned around, and started snoring again!

"Hey! Wake up, Mom asked me to come today and said that the village chief secured a matchmaker for Mei Xiang. Mom thought it was great and asked my family to tell you!"

"What a match!"

Liu Maolin sat up as soon as he turned over, and his mind became clear. Seeing that his mother-in-law was silent at the moment, he quickly started shaking her.

"It's a big deal these days. Tell me quickly, whose man the village chief mentioned, why does my mother think it's so good!"

Liu Maolin's voice was much higher, and he kept urging.

"I'm telling you, don't yell!" Xu Hong said. Seeing Liu Maolin's perfunctory promise, she didn't care much and said: "The village chief is talking about Dongsheng. Mother likes it very much and has already agreed in her heart. This is the marriage."

"Dongsheng, it's actually Li Dongsheng. He has been linked to Mei Xiang for a long time. I said that this guy who built the mud brick today really spared no effort. How dare he think about my plum fragrance? It's really unreasonable!"

Liu Maolin's voice became louder and louder as he spoke. Xu Hong was afraid of disturbing Zhao Tianyu. This matter had just been discussed and the matter had not yet been settled, but Xu Hong did not want too many people to know.

Seeing that Liu Maolin was still chattering to himself, Xu Hong felt really angry. She reached out to Liu Maolin's arm and twisted it hard in a circle.

He shouted angrily in a low voice: "To tell you the truth, I am very willing to get married in my heart. If you hadn't been stubborn enough to marry Mei Xiang to the Wu family, how could the child have suffered so much? Now it's all bittersweet. You There is nothing lacking!”

"I don't understand. What's wrong with Dongsheng? Even if Wu Pingxun is a loser, you can still treat him as a treasure. Dongsheng is not a hundred times stronger than Wu Ping. He is filial and loyal. The most important thing is that he I have the fragrance of plum blossoms in my heart, and just looking at this heart, I am willing!"

Xu Hong finished speaking in one breath, and then she felt that the blockage in her heart was relieved. At this moment, her heart was disturbed by Liu Maolin, and she didn't want to pay attention to her, so she turned over and lay down, falling asleep.

"She is really a woman with long hair and short knowledge. If Li Dongsheng is still the same as before, I will pinch my nose and agree!"

"But now he has got a windfall. If we promise our daughter out now, what will the people in the village think? They shouldn't think that we are trying to get high and just join him when we see he has a few taels of silver!"

Liu Maolin's face turned red and his neck was thick with anger. Fortunately, the room was dark and no one saw him.

"This is the first time I've seen my daughter find a good family. It's hard for a father to find a good family!"

Xu Hong pulled away the thin quilt on her body and said angrily: "The money Ren Dongsheng paid for selling fox skins was in exchange for his life. How can it be a windfall? What's wrong with climbing high? Water flows to lower places, and people walk to higher places. Ask around in the village to find out who has no idea of ​​climbing high!"

"What the people in the village think, they can think whatever they like. They are just a bunch of idlers who can't eat the grapes and find the grapes sour. They are not the central government's matchmakers. I don't care what others think!"

"I can tell you, my parents have said that if you mess up this marriage, don't step on the door of the old house in the future. Even a hundred years from now, they won't allow you to burn sacrifices in front of the grave!"

After Xu Hong finished speaking, she stared at Liu Maolin. She couldn't see anything clearly in the dark room, just an outline. Even so, Xu Hong still stared at Liu Maolin without blinking.

"Come on! No one understands my heart. After all, I am the worst person!" After that, he opened the quilt, covered his head and went to sleep.

"You're so bored!" After decades of being married, Xu Hong finally softened her heart and pulled the quilt covering Liu Maolin's face.

He sighed and said: "How long can we stay with Mei Xiang! Xiaoxue is a girl again. It's hard to say what the future will be like. No matter how good A Yan and Tianyu look now, they will grow up and get married the next day. Who knows what the new couple's temperament will be. , when the time comes, each family will have its own troubles, and who will care about the plum fragrance!"

Regardless of whether it was Mei Xiang, Yun Xiang or Liu Yan, any one of them was Xu Hong's heart. Whoever's life was going well, she thought she could live for two more years. Whoever's life was unsatisfactory, she would dig out the heart Like bones, I just wish I couldn't replace him with my body.

Xu Hong's voice was low, and she carefully explained to Liu Maolin Liu Meixiang's loneliness in her later years, and then pointed out Dongsheng's strengths.

Finally, he said: "I know you love the children more than I do, but you just can't get away with it. Dongsheng is indeed a good boy, and I really don't want to miss it. If you really don't like it, I'll have to be a bad guy and fight." Even though my parents scolded me, I refused this marriage!"

"That's easy to say. Parents are easy to fool. Let's keep it like this. He shows off his money, but the betrothal gift is essential. Let him get a dowry gift of ten taels. I won't touch any of this money, leaving only Mei Xiangbang. If that kid changes his mind in the future, Mei Xiang will have a way out!"

Liu Maolin finished speaking awkwardly, but he only recognized the twelve taels of betrothal gift and did not let go at all.

Xu Hong couldn't help it. She was afraid that if she tried to persuade him again, she would offend him, so she stopped talking. She just wanted to talk to her parents-in-law again the next day!

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Zhao Tianyu came home to see some grandchildren the next day, and the rapeseed at home was waiting to be harvested. When she got around to it, it was already three days later, and Nian had already replied to the village chief.

Wait for Xu Hong to ask how much the betrothal gift is going to be.

"The village chief said that May is a poisonous month, so it's not easy to make appointments. When the twelve taels are offered in June, the title should be decided first!"

"In addition, Dongsheng sent a message, saying that he didn't want to wrong Mei Xiang, so he would hold the wedding after his grandma's anniversary celebration."

Mr. Nian was drying rapeseed in the yard. While sweeping away the rapeseed pods, he glanced at his eldest daughter-in-law and said.

I have to hold a wedding, I'm afraid that the old man in the family will find it ostentatious and uncomfortable!

"Don't worry about it, the wedding will be next year, but the wheat is almost harvested, so take care of the work in front of you first!"

Liu Yu was rummaging around in the east wing room, pulling out tools for cutting wheat, including shovels, sickles, linen bags and stone rollers.

Grind what needs to be polished, and repair what needs to be repaired.

It has been getting hotter and hotter recently, and it is inconvenient for Liu Meixiang and Xiaoxue to live with Nian and Liu Fusheng. They have moved to Liu Yu's old house in the past two days.

Because every family is busy working on the wheat field, the construction of new houses has stopped. Now the beams and beams have been erected, and the roofs with bamboo poles are also erected.

All that is left is to use straw and mud as a roof, and then lay tiles.

Because Nian and Liu Fusheng felt that the newly threshed wheat straw was stronger and more durable, they simply waited for the wheat to be threshed and put into the warehouse before making the mud roof.

When people are busy, time passes very quickly.

Before the Dragon Boat Festival, the pregnant female mice in the family gave birth to pups one after another, ranging from two to four in a litter.

The family is busy, harvesting wheat, and grinding fields. On weekdays, they only feed enough bamboo roots and bamboos, and let the mother rat take care of the cubs!

Maybe it's the nature of animals, but the mother rat also carried it in a decent manner. When the wheat came into the warehouse, there was no break. Liu Yu had to count it carefully every day.

There were fifty-two baby rats in total. It only took eight or nine days for them to grow from a bare bamboo rat cub to a round body with fine hair.

In the evening, after washing in the hot water, Liu Yu and Changsheng counted their money by the light, thinking about the upcoming plowing of the soil, and thinking that it was time to buy a cow!