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"Is this what you want to say? Then why don't you go into the house and talk about it."

Xu Youliang shined the torch in the direction of Tian's son-in-law: "I see that you have caught a cold and your face is red. Are you having a fever? You haven't suffered from the cold this morning."

Son-in-law Tian thought:

Not only was it freezing this morning, but it was also freezing yesterday.

As for why he didn't go directly into the house.

A bunch of angry relatives, instead of talking about celebrations and eating at the beginning of the new year, they are busy fighting with each other. Needless to say, we all know that the Chinese New Year is unlucky for us.

As for the mother-in-law, what she said yesterday has already offended the third aunt without even realizing it.

He was afraid to go into the house and directly ask his cousin-in-law to do something. If his third aunt sat aside and made a face, the cousin-in-law would be reluctant to agree because of his mother-in-law's mood.

That's what he thought, so he didn't go directly into the house, but stopped to say a few words while thinking.

Unexpectedly, my brother-in-law went back early. When did he miss him? He still doesn't understand it.

But what he said was: "Brother-in-law is a very busy man. He comes back only once a year. I think this is all a trivial matter. I can just take the time to talk to you. I don't want to disturb you when I come to the house to have a reunion dinner."

Tian's son-in-law hurriedly promoted his own ducks again, fearing that Xu Youliang would turn around and get in the car and leave:

"Brother-in-law, our ducks were raised on grain worms, and I also found small fish cubs to feed them. Even the water they drank was mountain spring water from Daosha behind my house.

Each one weighs just over four kilograms. It is plump and has no faults at all. It is definitely the best gift for visiting relatives and friends. My duck is stewed in your shop, and it tastes so good, full of fat. A restaurant in town sells a fat duck for 258 cents and earns half of it.

As for my brother-in-law, let me tell you the truth. It doesn’t matter if the family has thousands of dollars. My family has always wanted to find a big buyer who won’t get angry due to toothache for a long-term cooperation.

But our place is poor, and there are very few wealthy families who can buy my ducks for a long time, so I still have to pay the housekeeper a favor. As for restaurants, I often take other people's food when I arrive late. After all, chickens, ducks and geese are not a rare thing.

I just thought that I have a relative like you. Regardless of whether you should respond or not at the moment, I want to say hello to you first, just in case I can do it. What if your family knows a lot of people and others want to buy a lot of ducks.

I'm so happy that your brother-in-law has started a family. Brother-in-law, please believe me, really! "

Tian's son-in-law has a sincere attitude.

He doesn't despise his relatives who are capable. It would be better if they are more capable than him so that they can attract him.

Moreover, for capable relatives, if something difficult happens at home, a bunch of people whining and shouting will not be able to help, and they are not as good as one person who can talk easily. It's great to have such relatives who can come up with ideas as well.

"Don't worry, brother-in-law. I charge more than 100 yuan for retail sales to others. If you come to collect them, I won't have to worry about selling them. My father has been ill for a long time, and I don't worry about going out to retail. I'll give you 80 yuan. Eighty-five cents each. Not to mention duck eggs, which are no different from your own. You can just pick the big one in the basket. When the time comes, your brother-in-law will pick whichever one you like. If I dare to frown a little, I am not a human being. .”

Xu Youliang understood. Because Tian's son-in-law was an only son and Tian's father was old, Tian's son-in-law would rather earn less or find a regular market. He could stay at home and focus on raising ducks and farming to accompany his father. Only then did he find he.

Xu Youliang told the truth:

“But my store makes a lot of fish, chicken, and goose stews, and I really don’t like duck stew.

Yesterday, when Dali said that my mother-in-law wanted to raise ducks, I was still thinking. The few ducks my mother-in-law raises are enough for my family, and I really don’t like takeout.

As for collecting the duck eggs before, I have already asked my brother Dashan to summon Li Zheng to let him know.

What's going on here? I'll tell you the truth, I just want to help the poultry breeders in each village collect duck eggs, even if my family has thousands of dollars of fur. This is called benefiting the people.

It just so happens that my brother Dashan serves as the town pavilion. He helps the people collect poultry to find sales, which can be regarded as a political achievement. It has been harvested and my mother will pickle it in two days. "

Son-in-law Tian was disappointed in his heart, but it didn't show on his face at all. Moreover, he could accurately find Xu Youliang's itchy spot and said quickly:

"It's okay, brother-in-law, I'm grateful for taking the time to listen to what I have to say so early in the morning. I'll have another chance in the future. Well, does my third aunt want to raise ducks and geese? Don't worry, brother-in-law, I'll pick them up after a while. The third aunt will choose the ducks and geese, and designate each one to ensure that each one survives."

Xu Youliang and Yu Dali looked at each other.

They had to admit that Tian's son-in-law, whose family could earn one hundred and eighty taels a year, had a lot of troubles.

When Xu Youliang got in the car, he thought for a moment and said, "If you're like this, go to my house later and talk to my mother."

"Ah? Can I go?!" Son-in-law Tian's disappointment immediately turned into happiness.

Xu Youliang couldn't help but laugh. His mother doesn't eat people: "Why not? Because I don't know how many salted duck eggs my mother wants to pickle, and whether she knows anyone else and whether she can buy ducks. You and She talks about it in person, so at least she has an idea and can help you pay attention. If someone else buys it, she will give it to you and she can talk better than me."

"Then...brother-in-law, please hurry up and drive the car. Tell your aunt that I will definitely make a large quantity and negotiate for a lower price. If you need help in the future, just let me know!"

The car drove away, but Tian's son-in-law was still looking at the butt of the car, waving and smiling.

Ms. Lin couldn't bear to look at it anymore and thought to herself: Alas, this scene is probably what her son Dali said when he came home. He and his brother-in-law were running around the county town selling takeout goods.

She seemed to see her uncle being pushed out of the door by a merchant in the city and told that he would not buy it.

Maybe not as good as the one in front of me.

At least this one could choose not to leave home because he was afraid that his father would be sick and no one would take care of him.

And her uncle, as well as the boys from the Xu family, including her son, were about to leave. She didn't even spend enough time with the children. It will be a long time before I see my daughter-in-law and son-in-law next time.

"Third Aunt, hehe, Third Aunt, wish you a happy Chinese New Year. I'll drive my car tomorrow and come to pick you up to get the duck..." There was a clang, and she couldn't hold on anymore because she had a cold and fever and fell to the ground softly.

"Huh?" Before Mrs. Lin could shed tears, she was frightened when Tian's son-in-law fell straight down: "Someone, come quickly!"

Why do you think Xiaocui (third cousin) is so careless? She is still sleeping at her parents' house, while her husband faints from the cold trying to earn some money.

……

When Xu Youliang, Yu Qiniang and Yu Dali approached Erdaohe, they happened to meet Yingzi and Hongzao Dad from Uncle Guan's family.

Xu Youliang hurriedly pulled the cow rope, and Yu Qinniang opened the curtain and frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Don't mention it, it's sprained foot."

The Guan family's firewood pile was burned down by a fire in Wangjiagou during the battle to grab the river. Aren't the firewood piles of many homes burned down at that time?

This winter it's all up to you to pick up some firewood, and he will give you some firewood.

But what makes the Guan family even worse than those other families is that half of the house was burned down, leaving only half of the house. They needed more firewood to keep the house warm.

The firewood at the shop side has to be chopped now, for fear of not being enough.

Yingzi also thought that she would be less troublesome to others if she could do it. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, she just collected firewood when she had nothing to do. I stepped in the snow and fell into the hole of an unknown animal and sprained my foot.

Thanks to Hongzao's father who passed by and saw her, but one of them didn't have a man and the other didn't have a wife, so they couldn't walk with each other on their backs. They held a stick between them to move each step.

"Get in the car quickly."

Yingzi got on the bus, with Yu Qinniang holding a fire cage in her arms: "Brother, you get on the bus too."

But Father Hongzao refused. He said that he suddenly remembered that something had been left behind at the shop and that he wanted to go back and ask Xu Youliang to help him carry his luggage back to the village.

Turning around, Father Hongzao went to cut firewood for the Guan family. At this time, Yingzi really thought that he was going back to the shop to get something.

When I entered the village, I met Xu Tianxin and Chunfang's family again.

Madam Chunfang insists on letting Tian Xin'er stay home for dinner. It's rare for her family to stew chicken thighs and stew potatoes today.

"Auntie, I don't want to eat. The family is waiting for me to eat. If I don't come back, my grandma will criticize me again." Last night, her grandma criticized her and asked her why she always went to other people's houses to bring rice bowls when she was celebrating the Chinese New Year. .

Xu Tianxin explained, would it seem like he was looking down on those grandparents if he didn't go?

He was really pulling her, and he pinned her down on the edge of the table and stuffed chopsticks into her hands.

She almost pulled her sleeves off.

Xu Tianxin thought about giving face to others again. Her grandma once taught her that the more disadvantaged a family invites you, the more you should pay attention to other people's self-esteem and go with a sincere invitation. So as not to look down on the other person.

In fact, it didn’t taste very good, maybe because I didn’t add coarse salt and other seasonings.

Then Mrs. Xu laughed and said that Xu Tianxin was having trouble with mechanization of food in modern times. There was so much food, but people in need were reluctant to eat well, so they still had enough to eat.

When you get here, please spare those grandparents, and go and eat a quarter of the pig's paws, that's great.

So Xu Tianxin must struggle to leave today, but he doesn't dare to stay at Chunfang's house to eat chicken thighs. If she hadn't just come to tell Chunfang what to do, she wouldn't have left the house.

Besides, her family is making delicious food today, "Auntie, I really can't stay."

Still some distance away, Xu Laoer saw his eldest niece's two hats that looked like bunny ears. They were white bunny hats that Lao San and Lao Si bought for their nieces. Qin Niang sewed two hats on the tips of their heads. It’s a small red ball, otherwise it would get mixed up with the white snow. My niece likes to wear all black, and she skis very swissly, so she is afraid that she will slip and lose it. Sew a red ball to ward off evil spirits.

"Tian Xin'er!"

Xu Tianxin turned around hurriedly when he heard the sound, happy, and kept waving his hands: "Hey? Aunt, aunt, you are back!"

The smile on Xu Youliang's face stopped, this kid is really good.

Your aunt and your Yingzi mother were chatting in the carriage, but she didn't see you at all.

Your uncle and I called you, so you know what aunt and aunt are.

This time, Chunfang Niang couldn't hold Xu Tianxin anymore. She watched Xu Tianxin jump up and get into the luxurious oxcart, and was carried home by Yu Qinniang.

But it was not easy for her family to cook delicious food, so she asked Chunfang to secretly ask Hongzao to come to her house to eat some meat.

Today is the third day of the Lunar New Year and we are not visiting relatives and friends. The rules in the countryside say that today is Red Dog Day, so we should go to bed early today so that the mice will not bother us next year and the harvest will be good.

Therefore, it was rare for the Xu family to get together today, without outsiders coming to disturb them.

Isn't that right? There's even a table full of people.

Everyone on the table covered their mouths and laughed: "Again, I have to eat well at my sister's house again. After eating, I will go back to the shop to work."

Xu Youliang said "Huh" with his front foot, and Xu Youcang appeared with his back foot to help his brother unload the truck. Xu Youyin was talking sweetly in the kitchen.

Xu Youliang went into the room and washed his hands. He looked at the table, which was filled with meat and some seafood given by General Jia. He didn’t know what scallops and oysters were. The pot was simmering with aroma, and he asked in surprise: "Guess what we are doing today?" Are you coming back?"

"I don't know." Old Mrs. Xu said.

"Mom, you didn't know it was so good to eat at home? You didn't even wait for us."

The Xu family was full of laughter, so what, who can wait for you to eat hot pot? We can eat the mutton we saved if we want. Your mother-in-law also designated delicious food for you. Have you given it to us?

"It's so fragrant." Xu Tianxin never said this, and when he filled the table with it, the lucky person would eat with that profound expression.

But today, Xu Tianxin wrapped her hands in sesame sauce and stuffed the mutton slices into her mouth, and immediately said, "Emma, ​​it's so delicious." It showed that she was really greedy.

Mrs. Xu's face turned red as she ate, and there was sweat on the tip of her nose: "Eat, eat everything, old man, and add some fish balls, you will be full today."

The old lady was extremely satisfied with Yu Qinniang and Yu Dali who brought back a large basket of eggs.

The eggs were wiped clean and very big. It looked like they had been bought with great care.

In the heart of the old lady, even if she brings back some potato seeds, she will be treated as a return gift. She has to bring some back anyway, and she will be even happier:

"I'll tell you later about your mother's family. If you're impatient with the smell of fish, eat fish. Granddaughter-in-law, your mother will give you freshly cut sashimi. It's difficult to cut the layers. Don't listen to her saying that she didn't wait for you. In fact, I already guessed that you all knew it. As long as it doesn't blow with smoke and heavy snow, she will be back at noon. "

After that, Yu Qinniang and her mother-in-law laughed again as if they were in love, which made Xu Laoer feel like he was indifferent. What a fool, what a wife.

After eating a mouthful of meat on the table, she rinsed the cabbage and sauerkraut: "Sister, don't pick it up for me. To be honest, the hot vegetables taste delicious when wrapped in sesame sauce. Thanks to our family, we have already saved some chive flowers and frozen them. . I’m optimistic that our family will save more for this autumn harvest. It’s best for our family to dry and grind spinach and everything else to grind and store it in case we don’t have it in winter.”

"Well, I didn't expect that the chive flowers and candied garlic I made were so delicious. No wonder..."

Mrs. Xu urgently swallowed the rest of her words.

No wonder the last time the general came, there was nothing left in the small plate of chive flowers and a small bowl of sugared garlic that he brought to the general.

"I want to save some vegetable powder. If I had saved it last year, our family would dare to sell colorful glutinous rice balls to Fucheng Restaurant this year. The snacks baked by Dabao can also be more colorful."

Xu Youyin picked out a large piece of chopstick-boiled mutton for Mrs. Xu, fearing that his mother would miss a bite.

I thought: Mom, you are still not greedy. How can you still have the thoughts to chat at this time?

Xu Youyin took a bite of mutton slices, dipped it in sesame sauce and stuffed a piece of frozen tofu into his mouth, ate a piece of sugared garlic, and rinsed a piece of duck blood. When he saw Xu Tianxin cracking an egg, he was really greedy and imitated his niece and cracked one: "This What kind of good day is this? I’ll make some noodles later, and I’ll be so happy that I can’t help it.”

Yu Dali was also sweating while eating, thinking: Indeed, the Xu family's delicacies will always refresh his knowledge.

At the same time, although no one from the Xu family came to visit today, the married girls and uncles who had not left the village had nothing to do after dinner, and they actually encouraged each other to come to the large open space newly bought by the Xu family. .

Yesterday, many people saw how wealthy the Xu family was. To describe it this way, the blocks of soybean paste that the old Xu family used to make soybean paste were stacked on boxes in each house like a wall, almost reaching the roof.

Some people from poor families lamented when they returned home: "I can't even afford the oil paper used to wrap those soy cubes in the Xu family." Not to mention soybeans.

As Jiang Duanzi could save so much, they were really curious about how big of a homestead the Xu family had bought. They even had to hire people to grow the crops, starting with two hundred people.

"Look, this large area is the Xu family's homestead." Many father-in-laws and mothers-in-law said proudly, as if they were showing off their property: "That large area is the Xu family's red sorghum field this fall. .”

"Emma..." Everyone marveled from the bottom of their hearts. This time when I go back to my in-laws' house, I can straighten my back and say that we have to go back to our parents' house to work and earn money, and we can't help the family farm. Unless the husband's family doesn't want money for the other houses. Impossible, they will definitely be able to come out, and if they earn more, they can also hide some of it.

Everyone was still amazed, Emma, ​​who is that person in the distance? Surrounded by firewood and no one in sight.

Father Hongzao was carrying a large bundle of firewood and was bending down. He was dragging two more bundles and was walking towards Guan's house with great difficulty.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, we welcome the Kitchen God.

The Xu family brothers were ready to set off after a meal of hot pot shabu-shabu. We couldn't eat meat for free and had to climb mountains to find a way to earn back the meat money.

Originally, all the people who went there were my own family members, and they didn’t tell anyone about looking for expensive wood. Only three brothers and two grandchildren are allowed, and one bird is left at home. The table is full of tigers, Yu Dali, and the son-in-law who was kicked out by Meizhuang.

The son-in-law was very aggrieved: "Why am I so skinny? A tiger jumps ten feet high, and I can't even fit between his teeth."

Meizhuang said, there are no merchants in the shop, so you can't just stay at home while guarding the oxcart down there if you go up the mountain.

Logically, these people would be enough. Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the village, Hongzao's father, who was supposed to be resting, jumped into the car. He could not just thank the Xu family for helping his daughter, but he also had to take action. I heard about it yesterday when I went to deliver firewood to Guan's house.

As he walked, Liu Jingdong waved his arms and ran wildly shouting: "Brothers, wait for me!"

In order to get more dry food for his brothers, he arrived a step too late.