Crossing the green wheat ears

After the spring sowing ended, the West family got busy again.

First of all, the second uncle's family is going to build a new house. However, Ximing Wu's house was prepared relatively early and the materials were all ready last year. Now it is only necessary to start building.

Although they also spend money to hire people to build houses like the big brother's house, but they have to cook for them.Ximing Wu's family was still looking for the group who built the house for Ximingwen's family the year before last, because they felt that they were hardworking and honest.Not surprisingly, Xi Yuan saw Shuan Zi again among this group of people.

Shuanzi is still very grateful to Xiyuan, but he doesn't know how to repay him.At first glance, the conditions of the Xi's family are quite good, and some of his family's Xi's family is not short of them.

Shuanzi's mother was very good at dried radishes, so Shuanzi brought a small jar to Xi's family, but he didn't have the nerve to take more, for fear that people would look down on him.

Xiyuan soaked the dried radish and fried it with oil and dried chili. The result was unexpectedly delicious.Several children in the family robbed it when eating, because the salt was soaked in water, so it was not salty, and the children ate it as a snack.

Xiyuan asked if there were any Shuanzi left, and if so, he would get some next time he went home.

Shuanzi touched his head happily, and hurriedly agreed with a smile.

When the second uncle's house was getting up, Yuzhen came.She couldn't stay at her mother's house, and her elder brother and sister-in-law thought that their mother and son would have a bad day for eating rice, so they would read small stories to her.

Although Yuzhen is strong, life is really difficult for a woman with no house or land and a child.It was okay a few days ago, the brother and sister-in-law were busy with the field work, and Yuzhen could help, but now that the field work is temporarily done, the attitude towards their mother and child has become even worse.

Taking advantage of the warm weather and slack season, Yuzhen came to stay at Xi's house for two days mainly to relax.

With Yuzhen's arrival, the family has added another powerful helper.She is also quick at everything, put the girl in front of the old lady, give the child something to eat or play, and the girl can play for half a day by herself, without crying or making trouble. The old lady just needs to look at it from time to time to make sure As long as the child is fine.

Then, Yuzhen rolled up her sleeves to help Niang Xiyuan and her second aunt cook.The three of them are all fast workers, and it takes no effort at all to cook meals for more than twenty people.

After finishing her work, Yuzhen sat next to the old lady and chatted with the old lady. The two of them were already able to chat, but now Yuzhen is full of gratitude to her mother's family, and she is more intimate with the old lady.

Her hands are not idle, she is stinging at the soles of the shoes, and she does not know anything else. She intends to make shoes and sell some money to support the lives of the mother and the wife.Sometimes, when chatting with the old lady, Yuzhen would be distracted and look at the good life of Xi's family. She was very envious of Xiyuan's mother and second aunt, she was married to the right family, not like her!

After suffering for so many years, I don't even have a home now!

Seeing Yuzhen's expression, grandma sighed too.

This girl has a bad life. She lost her parents when she was a child. She grew up cautiously in front of her elder brother and sister-in-law. When she was six or seven years old, she stepped on a small stool and surrounded the stove to cook. She accidentally broke the dishes and cried in fright. She was afraid that her brother and sister-in-law would beat her.Fortunately, she is a kind-hearted person who has grown up stumblingly. She originally wanted to marry and live a good life, but now, this is the result again.

The hardships of life make Yuzhen look much older than her actual age. She is only 20 years old this year, but she looks similar to Xiyuan Niang. Fine lines have appeared in the corners of her eyes. Working all day makes her hands rougher than other daughter-in-laws. many.

Facing the hardships of life, Yuzhen didn't sigh and sigh all day long, but silently shouldered the burden, trying to make life as good as possible. She lost her husband and home, but she still has a girl, her life is like this in her life, I can't let my daughter suffer like her again.

Yuzhen plans to live in Xi's house for a while, then go back to her mother's house to see if she can rent a vacant room. She has hands and feet, so she can find a way to support her mother and daughter. She doesn't want the girl to be like she was when she was a child. Look at people's faces and eat.

"If you want to live alone, why don't you find a room with us?" The old lady said hesitantly after hearing Yuzhen's words.Her family has a house, but Yuzhen is just her daughter-in-law, and it's not good for the old lady to be the master directly.

"Mother, I have to go back to my mother's house to live, and I can't make trouble for you and elder brother." Yuzhen rejected the old lady's suggestion, and she couldn't cause any more trouble for the Xi family, "It's okay, mother, After all, that is my natal family, I grew up there, everyone in the village knows each other, so it is better than other places." Seeing the old lady's worried eyes, Yuzhen comforted the old man.

"You two have no house or land, how can you live?" The first thing the old lady thought of was basic livelihood issues.

"We are not far from Xujia Town. I have nothing to do and make shoes. If someone needs to do needlework or something, I can also make clothes for them." Yuzhen was very worried. I seldom go out of the village, go to the fields every day, and go around the house. Now I have to face the outside world alone. If I say that I don’t feel scared, it’s a lie.

"Girl, don't be in a hurry to go back, stay with me for a while, make shoes or something and catch up with a market in Wande Town to sell them, and you can pick and choose when you have two dollars in your hand." The old lady gave Yu Jane made up her mind.

"Okay, mother, I'll listen to you." Yuzhen felt warm in her heart. In fact, the old lady was not related to her for any reason. Seeing her Yuzhen ordering something, something really happened. My natal brothers can't count on it, and the old lady has to help. This is also the blessing she cultivated in her previous life.

In this way, Yuzhen lived in Xi's house, helping Xiyuan's mother and the others with their work during the day, and staying up late at night doing needlework under the lamp.Xiyuan watched coldly, thinking that Yuzhen is not bad, so can she, um, be his uncle's wife?

Xiyuan is not sure, after all, Yuzhen is more than ten years younger than her uncle. Although there is such a motivator as a girl, girls don't need to buy a house and land to marry a wife. Some dowry, if you don't have it, you don't have to give it.

Xiyuan didn't make a sound, but he watched Yuzhen's behavior with his heart, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Yuzhen was good. Although he could catch up with their Xi's family, he didn't take advantage of the old lady's affection for her, so he stalked her. On the contrary, it is better to save money by lighting a lamp and cooking oil by doing needlework.

The second uncle's house was built very quickly, and the big frame was up in less than 20 days. Because the house had to wait for the house to dry before the interior could be done, work had to be temporarily suspended for a while.

During the shutdown period, the workers were not idle, and Xi Mingwen's family wanted to build a courtyard wall.

Originally, Xiyuan’s house only had a wall on the side of the house, and the vegetable garden at the back and the vacant yard on the west were all original fences. After discussing with his father and grandfather, Xiyuan decided to buy green bricks to enclose the entire homestead. stand up.

This is a big project. Xi Mingwen's place is very spacious. In addition to the house he lives in now, when he built a house in the west, he bought another place with the size of a house and a half, plus the vegetable garden at the back, and The place of the second child's house in the east is as big as a primary school campus now.

The old house in the east was given to the second son Xi Mingwu. Xi Mingwu was embarrassed to take it and wanted to buy a place to build a house by himself, but Xi Mingwen and Xiyuan insisted that they both wanted their second uncle’s house to be closer to their own. It is good to take care of each other.

Xi Mingwu hesitated and agreed. He didn't want to be too far away from his elder brother's house. He built a house next to the old house, and he was close to his parents.The eldest brother's house is spacious, and Wei Cheng and Xiao Wei grew up, and there is enough room to build a house alone, so he didn't refuse any more.

This time the courtyard wall was erected, and even the second uncle's house was brought along with it.When the walls of the courtyard were erected, the Xi’s House became a real mansion, and the villagers consciously or unconsciously began to call it the Xi’s Courtyard.

In the past, Xiyuan would have hesitated, fearing that such a large house would attract people's envy.

However, Cheng Yi led the villagers to build a wall last year. The main road passing by Xijia Village runs east-west and passes from the south of the village. According to Cheng Yi's plan, the whole village should have two gates on the south and north sides.In this way, although the Xi family held their head, it was surrounded by a wall, which was much safer than before. With the village wall blocking the Xi family, the Xi family was not so eye-catching.

Cheng Yi also wondered that the wall of the village did not start from other places, but started from the west, that is, the Xijia. Now all the men in the village have gone to serve corvee, and the matter of the wall has been put on hold for the time being, but this year The corvee is only one month, and people will come back soon, and then they can dig the soil and ram the wall at the same time. It is estimated that this year, the west wall will be able to rise.

After the courtyard wall was erected, Xiyuan asked the workers to build three small green brick houses on the westernmost side. Although they were not as good as the wing rooms of the Xi family, they were much better than the thatched houses of ordinary people in the village.

Three small green brick houses were built, and a small courtyard was built around these three houses, and three rows of chicken coops were built on the east, west, south, and south sides.

Yes, Xiyuan intends to vigorously develop the chicken farming business, and the family now raises four to five hundred chickens.After raising chickens for several years, I have accumulated enough experience in raising chickens.At this time, no one has raised chickens on a large scale, and the price of chicken eggs is not cheap, especially in winter, eggs are not as expensive as usual. In the past two years, the West family has earned a lot of income from eggs alone.

When the chicken coop is up, it is enough to raise two to three thousand chickens.Xiyuan Niang has already made an agreement with the villagers and people she knows in nearby villages that if there are chickens to sell, just come to her house and they will buy them all.

With so many chickens, the family members pointed out that they were too busy, so they had to hire someone.Xiyuan thought Shuanzi was good, and wanted to ask him if he had any intentions in this regard. Shuanzi's family is in Yansui County, and he came to live in their Lianhua Village. I don't know if he is happy or not.

Before Xiyuan mentioned this matter to Shuanzi, he came to Xi's house alone, that is, Li Waiping, who lives in the middle of the village, whose house is worse than Xiyuan's grandfather's house.

Li Waine's neck is not crooked, but he habitually looks at people when he speaks, so the villagers nicknamed him Li Waine.

He is honest, and his family is thin, with only his elder brother, his life is good and bad.

It is said that his fate is good because he married a beautiful daughter-in-law. Except for Wei Chengniang back then, none of the older and younger daughter-in-laws in Lianhua Village can compare with Li Weibo's daughter-in-law.

Li Waibo's bad fate is also here. Not everyone is blessed with a beautiful wife. It's not that Li Waibo's wife doesn't want to live with him wholeheartedly. And to be honest, his old man was fine when he was alive, he went out to work, and his wife was fine at home.

Once the old man is gone, Li Wainec's good luck will also be gone.Those bums and unscrupulous men in the village would pass by his house whenever they had anything to do, looking for opportunities to tease Li Waibo's wife.

The key point is that Li Weibo's daughter-in-law is not that kind of person. She is afraid when she sees those bastards and hides tightly.However, those men hid one by one like flies.Usually when he is fine, he brags to the villagers, saying that Li Waibo's wife is with him, and that he has fallen in love with him.

The bad-mouthed women in the village, whether out of jealousy or wanting to ruin their family's reputation, in short, the reputation of Li Waiping's daughter-in-law as a dishonest person spread.

Li Waibo was also angry and fought with those bastards, but he is an honest man, where would he know how to fight, he would only get beaten.

Once, a daughter-in-law in the village gave birth to a child without milk, and the little girl in Li Waeibo’s family was just at the age of breastfeeding. The mother-in-law said that it was recruited by Li Weibo's wife, that she was not decent, and that the children who nursed her milk would not be able to get a good job.

This remark was overheard by Li Waibo’s daughter-in-law. She was timid and decent, and her mind was not wide-eyed. Slowly, she became ill from being aggrieved by herself, and now she was a little crazy. Seeing other men in the village When she fell ill, she chased people and shouted, "Go, you are looking for me, go." As for where to go, even she herself didn't know.

There are three children in the family, two boys, and a daughter. The mother can't take care of her, and Li Waipai is alone inside and out. She is about the same age as Xi Mingwen, but her back is a bit rickety. crushed.

Their house is the most dilapidated in the village. Last year, a heavy rain collapsed a wall, and Li Waibo repaired it. I don’t know how the family survived the cold winter.

Li Weibo came to Xi's house for nothing else. He heard that Xi's family wanted to find someone to feed the chickens, and wanted to ask if he could be used.

He has no other ideas, one is that the West family pays wages on a monthly basis. Many people in the village are eager to do this job and are eager to move.In addition, the three small green brick houses built by the Xi family were for the chicken feeders. They had a single door and were surrounded by the Xi family courtyard outside. It was a relatively quiet place. As long as the Xi family disagreed, no one would Can go in and disturb.

If the Xi family agrees to use him, he will bring his wife and children there, without those stinky men provoking him, it is estimated that his wife's illness will be better, this is Li Waibo's main purpose.