Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 342 Liang Yulin's Grief and Indignation (Two in One)

In a luxuriously and gorgeously furnished wing room in the backyard, there were bursts of cheerful laughter from the women and the clatter of playing cards from time to time.

Yang is wearing a bright autumn-colored jacket and skirt with large clusters of flowers, and has a high bun on her head, with various pearl and flower hairpins inserted.The face is also heavily made up, and the nails are painted bright red, because he has to raise his hand to touch the cards from time to time, revealing a golden bracelet on the cuff.The dazzling light under the light is very eye-catching.

The two women sitting on Mrs. Yang's left and right were both dressed as servants. When Liang Jinlan bought this house for them, she bought it together to serve Mrs. Yang and Liang Yulin.

Sitting opposite Yang, the woman who was dressed a little differently from the servant girl and dressed as a young woman, she talked to Yang the most, was Xu Shi Lingzhi, the nanny of Liang Jinlan's son Zhuang Zhuang.

Because in Jinjishan Village, Mrs. Xu followed Mrs. Yang every day to flatter her, which made Mrs. Yang very happy.Anyway, Zhuang Zhuang was almost one year old after the new year, and when it was time to wean, Mrs. Xu had nowhere to go, so she begged Mrs. Yang to stay by her side and continue to serve her.

Mrs. Yang was playing a card here, Mrs. Xu was yelling at the opposite door, and a young man named Chang Ding hurriedly came to the door to answer.

"Chang Ding, didn't you send you to call the master to come over and help me draw cards? Why don't you see anyone else?" Yang asked the little servant Chang Ding who was kneeling at the door without raising his eyelids.

"Returning to Madam, the master said he didn't intend to come over, let Madam fight by herself!" Chang Ding replied with his head down.

"Then how is it possible? He taught me my card skills. It's still very unfamiliar. If he doesn't come here, what should I do if I lose the money? You have to make another trip quickly, and I must call him over!" Yang said. .

"Ma'am, don't be modest. Although the master taught you the poker skills, I think Ma'am is good at playing cards. You are a good thief! You two said, is that so?" Xu smiled and asked the two sides asked the accompanying maid.

The maids on both sides naturally smiled and agreed, and praised Yang for his good fight.

Yang shook her head triumphantly, causing the jewels on her bun to make a crisp sound of ping-pong collision.

"Where is there..." She said modestly, and then asked Chang Ding: "Where is the master, what is he doing?"

"Madam..." Chang Ding showed a troubled look on his face, knelt on the ground with a bitter face.

Yang raised her eyelids, her voice became stern, and she asked Chang Ding: "I am asking you something, are you dumb? What are you doing, master?"

"Ma'am, don't worry, the master is still drinking in the dining hall, crying and laughing alone..." Chang Ding said in a low voice, not daring to hide it.

"What?" Yang was startled, the cards in her hand fell to the table, and with a ding dong, she also stood up.

"It's such a festive New Year's day, what the hell is he crying about! Damn, it's just not worrying!" Yang cursed, and waved at the three servants who also stood up on the table: "It's gone, I see Behold the devil!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked out.After reaching the door of the house, Mrs. Xu chased up from behind, offering a scarlet cloak to Mrs. Yang respectfully with both hands, and handed over a hand warmer.

"Ma'am, I'm afraid the master is drunk. Otherwise, the servants will accompany you over there, so I can take care of you." Mrs. Xu asked for instructions, with a concerned expression on her face.

Mrs. Yang was very satisfied with Mrs. Xu's thoughtfulness and respect. She waved her hand and said disapprovingly, "Tsk tsk, so what if you're drunk? Could it be that you still dare to beat me up while drinking?"

"But ma'am, have you forgotten that the last time on the field ridge in Jinjishan Village, the master pressed you under him, and your face was swollen, which made the young mistress feel distressed for a long time. Let the slaves accompany you there! "

It's okay not to mention the incident of being beaten in the field ridge last time, but if it is mentioned, Yang will not get angry.She curled her lips fiercely, her face drooped, and she said: "That dead ghost is the most wolf-hearted, and I fell into his way because I was unprepared that time. This time, if he dares to touch half of my hair, I will Fight me with him!"

"Ma'am, today is not what it used to be. The Yang family has allocated the position of shopkeeper of Yangji Cloth Village in Huhai County to the master. After the spring of the new year, the master will go to Huhai to manage affairs and show his face outside. Such a man, he must have some face, Madam should swallow her anger in the future..."

"Bah, so what if you become the shopkeeper? Isn't that my natal family's property? I have been married to him for half my life, and now he is expelled from the old Liang family. He eats from my old Yang's house and lives in my old Yang's house. I can't cure him Him!" Yang walked away cursing.

Mrs. Xu bowed her head and respectfully sent Mrs. Yang away. When Mrs. Yang walked away, Mrs. Xu raised her face, a white, smooth and well-maintained face, with a vicious and sinister sneer flashing across her face.

"If you want looks without looks, breasts without breasts, butts without butts, isn't it just because you have a rich mother's family and gave birth to a daughter who is a cash cow? How can you show your wife's score in front of my mother? Son? Humph, sooner or later, my mother will kick you!"

When Yang hurriedly knocked open the half-opened door of the dining hall, a pungent smell of alcohol and vomit came to her face.

"Oh my god, you dead ghost, you still let people live, this is so noisy!" Yang covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve, and did not look at how Liang Yulin described it in the dining hall, turned her head and rushed to the yard Here, yelling loudly with that broken gong-like voice.

"Where did everyone die? Hurry up and clean up the canteen. I paid you to come back one by one. Is it a sacrifice?"

"Here we come..." Immediately after that, there was a flurry of promises and hurried footsteps. In the blink of an eye, Ding Huan, the servant leader, and the two servants who played cards with Yang's before, also rushed over. Mrs. Xu didn't come.

In the dining hall, Mrs. Yang turned around but couldn't find Liang Yulin, and everyone else was busy cleaning up the mess.

"Damn ghost, why are you missing? Could it be that a crow picked it up?" Yang lifted her big flowery pleated skirt, stepped on the ground without bending her waist, and cursed.

Suddenly, he tripped over something under his feet, and Yang screamed, waving his arms and fell to the ground, his nose nearly flattened.

At this time, she finally found Liang Yulin. He was lying on his back under the table and sleeping, with a jug of wine in his arms...

Liang Yulin was carried back to the room where he and Yang slept by the servant Chang Ding and another servant Changrong.From the dining hall to the sleeping room in the backyard, there was a short distance, Mrs. Xu came behind, and it turned out that she was going to fetch the mattress.Liang Yulin was moaning and chirping all the way, his eyes half-opened and half-closed, as if drunk and half awake.

He didn't respond to Yang's yelling and questioning, and only cursed vaguely.

"Smelly, stinky woman, sowing discord... making waves...causing me... all betrayed... I can't go back home..."

"Mother... my son is not filial... I can't put incense on your grave during the Chinese New Year..."

Yang's face was pale with anger, and she gritted her teeth and hurriedly followed, without saying a word.

"Ma'am, what are you muttering about, master?" One of the maids asked curiously, she came from later, and she didn't know anything about the past affairs of Yang Shi and Liang Yulin.

Yang's face was livid, she turned her head and gave the servant a hard look, and slapped the servant with a raised hand, causing the servant to turn around and fall to the ground.

"You talkative bastard, you deserve to be beaten to death!" She scolded, spitting steadily on the maid's clean and tidy clothes, the servant woman covered her flushed face, knelt down and kowtowed to beg for mercy, Yang ignored her and turned around Just leave, leaving the servant woman kneeling on the cold courtyard ground.

Mrs. Xu followed closely beside Mrs. Yang with lowered eyes, without saying a word, no one dared to speak out, only Liang Yulin was still swearing indistinctly.

The night wind was cold, and Liang Yulin's mattress slid off. Another servant woman wanted to reach out to hold her, but Yang took the mattress away first.She rolled up the mattress in a random ball, tucked it under her armpits, crossed Liang Yulin angrily, and strode to the backyard first.

"The most poisonous woman's heart...the most poisonous woman's heart..." Liang Yulin was carried horizontally by two young servants, waving his hands, looking up at the black sky above his head, like a fish short of water doing its dying in the shallows struggle……

The next day, the weather was still fine, and a round of fiery red sun protruded halfway from the eastern mountain. On the official road, Liang Yuzhong's family sent Mrs. Sun and his party to the carriage in person.

On the ox cart at the back, there was a whole load of things tied up, half of them were New Year's goods bought by themselves, and the other half were New Year's gifts from Jin Xi's family.One for Mrs. Sun, one for Father Sun, and all the other gifts were entrusted by the Sun family to Sun Yuxia to pass on to other almost close friends in Sunjiagou.

Everyone smiled and waved goodbye, and agreed to meet again in the next year. Sun Erhu drove the carriage ahead, carrying the female family members.Behind them, Sun Dahu and Sun Yubao drove the bullock carts, one in front and the other in the back, heading steadily towards the mountains to the west.

It wasn't until the carriage turned into a small black spot at the end of the road ahead that the people who saw off on the official road turned back to the courtyard.

Busy year, busy year, after the 24th year, the villagers have given up their work, men, women and children are busy for the upcoming New Year's Eve.The streets and alleys of the village are full of laughter and laughter.

Jin Xi's house on the side of the official road across the pond is also in full swing preparing for the New Year.

The three shops were closed for a while, and rape and winter wheat were planted in the 20-acre field.The more than [-] acres of land purchased this year will be abandoned there for the time being, and will be cultivated and arranged in the spring of next year.

The Liujiatang has been dug almost as well. If the water level in the river drops during the year, it will have to wait until the spring of next year when the river will rise before bringing in the river water.Fish fry are very important. When Jinxi conceived the idea of ​​renting a fishpond to raise fish, she had already discussed it with Cook Hong from Mingshan Pavilion many times.

Chef Hong is the chef of Mingshan Pavilion. There is a small pond in the backyard of Mingshan Pavilion, which is specially used to raise those fish. Cook Hong is quite experienced in this area.

In this way, if everything is really stopped for the time being, the most urgent thing right now is the busy year.

Here we sent off Mrs. Sun and his party, and over there, butcher Zhang came in with a complete set of tools for killing pigs and knocked on the door of Jinxi's big courtyard, because today we had an appointment to kill pigs for the New Year.

A group of people surrounded this butcher and went to the big pigsty in the side yard. The pigsty was clean, and three fat-headed and big-eared pigs were lying there basking in the sun, still chewing vegetable stalks and whining. called.

There were also two half-grown piggies jumping up and down in the pigsty.

Sun pointed to the black piggy with a round body and said to everyone: "That one hasn't grown yet, I plan to save it until March or April next year before selling it."

"There are three pigs lying on the sun basking in the sun, one of them is slaughtered and eaten during the Chinese New Year, and the other two are sold." Sun said.

Jin Xi was also among them, holding on to a row of half-person-high wooden fences outside the pigsty, following their words, her eyes fell on the pigs inside.

Although life is better now, the Sun family has always been adhering to the habit of thrift and thrift, which is well known in the village.

Butcher Zhang looked at the three big pigs with round breasts and stubby limbs, and squinted his eyes with a smile.Then he looked at Sun and the others in surprise.

Mrs. Sun suddenly came over, smiled and continued: "Kill the one in the middle, my family has a large population now, and for New Year's bacon and so on, I have to ask for half a pig. The other half, my first house and fourth house are all booked."

Liang Yuzhou and his wife have been working in the shop in the town. There is no pig raising in the family, and the big house naturally does not have any this year.The pork for the Chinese New Year of these two families is naturally bought from Sanfang, which was agreed earlier.

"Xi'erniang, what do you plan to do with that half-sized piggy with long white stripes over there? That long white stripe is handsome!" Zhang Butcher asked again, pointing to the remaining one.

The male lead outside, the female lead inside, and the backyard are all managed by Sun at home, so naturally she has the most right to arrange.Liang Yuzhong even gave up the right to speak, and stood aside with his hands behind his back, looking at the fat fruits in his pigsty with a smile, and sighing in his heart for his wife's hard work this year.

Mrs. Sun glanced at the end that the butcher Zhang was pointing at, smiled and said: "I also saw that it is handsome, and it is a sow, and I want to keep it as a pig mother to raise it. I hope that the piglets born next year will They're all handsome too!"

When Jin Xi heard Sun's thoughts, she couldn't help but pursed her lips and chuckled, co-authored, if Sun beats a pretty pig mother, she will definitely give birth to a beautiful pig baby?I'm afraid this is a bit of a mystery, genetically speaking, half of it depends on the mysterious pig daddy.

Zhang Tuhu was very surprised, Liang Yuzhong also heard about Sun's decision, and looked at Sun in surprise.

Raising a pig girl is not a simple matter to talk about, it will cost a lot of money.During the months from being pregnant with a piggy until the piggy is weaned and ready to be taken away by someone, it is a waste of pig food.

This is only the second, the newborn piglets are also very labor-intensive before weaning and teething.A little carelessness killed a few of them, which can be said to be a waste of manpower for a year.

Of course, if luck is good and the mother pig is up to the challenge, a litter can give birth to more healthy piglets, and it happens to catch up with the shortage of piglets that year, and it can make a good profit.

Because of the high risk involved, there are not many rural households raising pig girls. In a village as big as Jinjishan Village, there are nearly two hundred households, and there are no more than five pig girls at most.

"Xi'erniang, are you ready?" Liang Yuzhong only asked this question.

Mrs. Sun didn't back down in the slightest, she nodded firmly, and said, "Well, Mama Dong and I have already made up our minds!"

"Success, then we'll raise it!" Liang Yuzhong grinned and said simply.

After working for half a day, he cleaned up the pig for the New Year. Butcher Zhang took the other two pigs away with his family members and said that he would come back to settle and sell them after the new year. Pig's silver.

In the afternoon, people from Dafang and Sifang rushed over to weigh pork. There were four people in Dafang during Chinese New Year. Liang Lizhi stayed at his master's house in the county as usual and did not come back. So Liang Lisheng weighed forty catties of meat.

Sifang Liang Yuzhou and his wife cut off [-] catties of meat.According to the current market price of pork outside, the price of pork has risen to fifty yuan per catty.

Liang Yuzhong and Sun decided to give them a unit price of 45 Wen, but Dafang and Erfang insisted on following the market price.In desperation, Liang Yuzhong and Sun had no choice but to accept it.

Before leaving, Mrs. Sun told the two families that they must come over to eat pig-killing rice at night.

After the members of the eldest room and the fourth room left, only Jin Xi's own family remained in the house.Sun looked at the table in front of her, in the big basin, under the roof beams, spread out, piled up, hung, lumps, strings, and cuts of pork and pig offal, her eyes and heart were full of It is joy.

On the side, Jin Xi was changing shoes with Cai Qingyang, who was about to go out to the town market to buy vegetables, and explained in detail the list and quantity of the purchases.

"...Ten catties of lotus root, four cabbage, two catties of shallots, three catties of bean sprouts... If there are no vegetables in the market, you can go to Liu Dahu's greenhouse to buy them..."

Cai Qingyang remembered everything in his heart, turned around and went out to set up a car and went to the town.

"Xi'er, if you buy it in a greenhouse, the price is much higher!" Mrs. Sun said over.

Liu Dahu is a well-known gentry in the town, with a large family, and spent huge sums of money to build the first greenhouse and greenhouse for growing vegetables in Changqiao Town.

I heard that there are many vegetables that are out of season.My family can't finish it, and I sell it to outsiders, but the price of vegetables in the greenhouse is naturally several times higher than that of seasonal vegetables in the market outside.

"It's more expensive, it's rare to invite everyone to eat pig-killing rice today. Apart from the pig stuff, there must be something else to decorate the table, right?" Jin Xi smiled.

Mrs. Sun was still feeling distressed there, Jinxi thought of something, looked up and saw Liang Yuzhong was in a hurry, but brought in a big basin from outside the house, inside the basin was a big pig's head.

"Xi'er, come quickly, look at this pork, don't you love braised tongue? Later, when the banquet is scattered at night, your mother and I will cook and pick this pig's head. You can eat it tomorrow." I ate tongue sticks." Liang Yuzhong said excitedly.

"Braised pork head meat is delicious too!" Jin Xi pursed her lips into a smile, then changed the subject and said, "Father, later on, I invite my family over to eat pork-killing rice, sir... what should I do?"

Hearing Jin Xi mentioned old Liangtou, the smile on Liang Yuzhong's face froze immediately.He was terrified of the meal last time.

Sun recalled that time when old Liangtou pretended to be crazy by drinking, jumped on the table, beat and cursed, his children and grandchildren reprimanded him one by one, and almost smashed Jin Xi's face with a black iron cigarette case.

"Father Xi'er, what should we do?" Sun asked, with obvious palpitations and fear in his voice.

"Then I won't invite you." Liang Yuzhong muffled.

"No? That's outrageous. Our family killed pigs, and invited them to eat meat in a lively manner, leaving Master Xi alone. It's unreasonable, and I can't bear it." Sun was afraid, but she was kind and upright nature has always existed.

Liang Yuzhong didn't open his mouth, Jinxi said: "Mother, I think, why don't we just cut a few catties of meat later, pair it with a jar of wine, and some other pastries to eat, and Brother Qingyang will buy it later, and give it to you later." With a large grass carp. I will send it to my grandfather tomorrow morning, anyway, our family hasn’t given it yet for this year’s festival!" Two shares combined into one share, saving trouble and worry and looking good.

"Father Xi'er, what do you think?" Mrs. Sun looked at Liang Yuzhong.

Liang Yuzhong nodded and said: "OK, then do as Xi'er said, let's not order the pig-killing rice tonight, I'm scared, I'd rather give him something tomorrow, everyone All be quiet!"

"Then, before we come back for dinner, I'll pick out some of every dish, and let the magpies deliver it to the old man!" Sun said.

As the sky gradually darkened, smoke billowed from the chimney of the kitchen in the backyard of Jinxi's house.Inside the kitchen, Mrs. Sun, Mrs. Jian, Cui Xique, and Taozhi were all wearing aprons and busy in an orderly manner.

Sitting at the mouth of the stove, Jin was concentrating on cooking the fire in the cauldron inside.Listening to everyone chatting and laughing while serving the food, Mrs. Jin liked the lively atmosphere very much, and she grinned and laughed along with her from time to time.

"Magpie, when you come here, can you go to the backyard and say hello to the old man?" Mrs. Sun asked Cui Xique, who was chopping vegetables.

"Oh, don't mention the old man. Since the last time I was drunk and arrogant at Sansister-in-law, you have been at odds with us these days!" Cui Xique cut the potatoes into thin shreds, Without raising his head, he said,
"Ah? How do you say?" Sun was surprised.

"Except for three meals a day, my fourth child and I can be sent to his house, and we are locked up at other times. When we go out to the toilet, we meet each other, as if we don't recognize each other. I will ask him for dirty clothes and clothes." Washed the sheets, didn't open the door, didn't answer, asked the fourth child to ask for it, and was scolded, saying that we are all wolf-hearted, hypocritical white-eyed wolves..."

"No way? The old man didn't have such a temperament in the past..." Sun Shi said, in the past, when Lao Liangtou was in Lao Liang's house, he was a relatively clear person, at least he would not spread his dissatisfaction with the third room to Four rooms to go.

"Why not? Third sister-in-law, if you don't believe me, just ask Taozhi, their eldest family has seen through the old man's torment during these days!" Cui Xique pointed to Taozhi who was busy frying meatballs over there.

"Taozhi, is this really the case?" Mrs. Sun turned to Taozhi and asked again.

Tao Zhi smiled wryly, and said: "As Fourth Aunt said, Master has been awkward with us for a while since the incident last time. He doesn't come out very often. He asked Mr. Sheng to invite him twice on New Year's Eve yesterday. He didn’t even come over for dinner, and said he was resting, so no one should bother him.”

"Huh, my fourth son and I came from my mother's house after dinner. As soon as we entered the yard, we saw the old man wearing a coat standing at the door of the east wing, muttering. Scolding. Said that we are all white-eyed wolves, and we will leave him during the holidays, go out to eat meat and drink... The fourth brother and I really jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash ourselves away!" Cui Xique sighed.

(End of this chapter)