No pain no gain

On the third day of the third day, Er Zhuang and his uncle’s family went to pay New Year’s greetings to his little aunt who was married to another village. On the fourth day, he went to other miscellaneous distant relatives’ homes to pay New Year’s greetings. From the fifth day onwards, the house was considered clean, although before The relatives who came to pay New Year’s greetings are not there because Da Zhuang’s parents are gone, so they only come here for a formality, eating and so on are all at the uncle’s house, but they have to rack their brains to pretend to greet those relatives and answer their "concern" questions , These are also extremely painful things.

The fool came to report early in the morning every day for the past few days. Because Da Zhuang helped him when weaving his own baskets, he often kept him for lunch. Er Zhuang had a lot of opinions on this.

"Brother, isn't our family running out of food?" Er Zhuang asked in a low voice while peeking at the fool who was helping to carry water.

The only thing Da Zhuang is satisfied with where he lives now is that there is a well in the yard, so he doesn’t need to fetch water from the public well at the head of the village. Son, the two wooden barrels at home are enough to lift even half of the bucket of water. Every time I need to carry most of the bucket of water to the kitchen with Er Zhuang, I will be exhausted after carrying it four or five times. Lifting half a bucket of water, the fool is thin but has a lot of strength. One person can lift half a bucket of water, and he can carry it a dozen times in a row, which greatly reduces Da Zhuang's workload.

"Brother knows how to measure. The idiot helped us. It's right to keep him for a meal. You don't have to mutter in the future, you know?" Da Zhuang explained carefully.

Er Zhuang reluctantly agreed, every time he went out to play, he was afraid to say anything about the fool at his house when asked by his friends...

Da Zhuang didn't know Er Zhuang was ridiculed by a few children outside and Er Zhuang's current mentality, otherwise he would not have let Er Zhuang go so easily with a single sentence.

Here, the old lady of the Wu family told the old man about her eldest grandson when she went home.

"Since Ah Da and Da Zhuang are getting better together, let them play together more!" The old man of the Wu family said while knocking on his cigarette stick.

The old lady leaned over and complained: "I will give your grandson free food and play!"

The old man smoked a cigarette, felt that the old woman was making a big fuss, and said indifferently: "It's not easy for them children, you send some food over there, just ask Da Zhuang well."

"I think so too, is the eldest daughter-in-law willing?" The old lady patted the old man resentfully.

"Hey, she gave birth to her anyway, and our family is not short of this kind of food. You go and tell her that this matter will be all right." The old man glanced at his wife and said calmly, how much is this? It's been a year, and I still have trouble with the eldest daughter-in-law!

The old woman muttered a few more words, and said her thoughts early the next morning while everyone was having breakfast.

"What mother said is that Ah Da has become smarter these days, and he looks like he is eating well." The eldest son didn't think too much, nodded and agreed to his mother's proposal.

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Wu family kicked her man secretly, and her father-in-law didn't object, after all, she didn't say anything, but her expression was not good.

The custom here is that from the first day to the seventh day of the new year is the time to celebrate the new year, and the New Year greetings must be completed within these seven days, and there are many inexplicable taboos and prohibitions during these seven days, so the old lady of the Wu family waited for the seventh day , On the morning of the eighth day of the eighth day, I brought a fool to Da Zhuang's house.

Although the idiot is slow to respond, it is not that he can't read people's faces at all. These days, the idiot also knows that Er Zhuang doesn't like eating lunch at his house, but the food that Da Zhuang cooks is really delicious, and Da Zhuang is sincerely keeping it. I eat by myself, so I am willing to stay with the cheek. Now that my grandma is going to give Da Zhuang food, I can eat at Da Zhuang's house in the future, not to mention how happy I am.

Da Zhuang opened the gate of the yard, and saw the idiot smiling silly at him. He was about to correct the idiot and told him not to smile at others when he had nothing to do. When he noticed the old lady behind the idiot, he swallowed the words again. How can a junior teach others a lesson in front of their elders!

Before entering the door, the old lady of the Wu family smiled and said: "Da Zhuang, I will leave my grandson to you in the future, and I don't want you to do anything. You spend more time playing with our family, Ah Da. Seeing Ada playing with you for a few days, I'm not as stupid as before..."

Da Zhuang first politely invited the old lady to sit in the room, poured the old lady a cup of hot water, and walked around with the old lady for a long time before he fully understood the purpose of the old lady's visit this time.

"You're too polite. There's nothing to say about such a trivial matter. If Ah Da is willing to come, we welcome you at any time." Da Zhuang said politely with a smile.

The old lady nodded noncommittally: "These are Ah Da's rations, and you spend the hundred dollars..."

The food was carried from home. The old lady was afraid that her grandson would suffer, so she deliberately packed more. There were more than half of the bag, and there were more than a dozen eggs and a few dried vegetables secretly in it. The old lady paid for it privately. The wife really wants her grandson to be well!

Da Zhuang pushed slightly, and seeing that the old lady insisted, he took it. It was agreed that the idiot would come here every morning and go back at night, and eat lunch and dinner here. If the food was gone, if the idiot still wanted to come, he would send some more. .

From Da Zhuang's point of view, this agreement actually has a big loophole. Both he and the old lady have loopholes to take advantage of, but the folks in the village are not so thoughtful, and the fool has helped him a lot here. Busy, don't worry about everything!

Since then, for a long time to come, Da Zhuang has an extra tail.