farmhouse ditty

Chapter 57
a few days ago...
The main room of the Guo Family Courtyard was open, and there was a woman sitting in the middle with her legs crossed. She was estimated to be in her forties, but she knew how to dress up, and her figure was still coquettish. Wearing two pieces of cotton silk clothes would look dewy. At least, it looks like that 39.

The aunt held up the tea bowl and took a sip, then frowned, put her backhand on the table, and wiped her mouth with a handkerchief.

"Crack", after hearing the sound, a young man holding a ledger raised his head, "Ma'am, what's the matter?"

The aunt tugged at her cuffs and stroked the golden hairpin on her head, "It's nothing, I feel uncomfortable for some reason."

The young man didn't say anything, and continued to mutter, "The old Wangtou paid the rent of the shop before, and this line is wiped out... Yesterday, Uncle Zhang felt that the land rent was expensive, so he said he would pay it back tomorrow (huan )..."

The auntie waved her hand and said impatiently, "Guixi, don't read it, it's been all morning, and I can't figure out the trivial things. You put this account book down, and I will read it by myself later."

After hearing this, Guixi closed the account book and put it on the side of the table, "Madam, I'll go back first, that Aunt Zhao is still waiting for me to drive the car."

The auntie lazily said "um", "Go ahead and call the master over by the way."

Guixi frowned, "Grandpa? What about Aunt Guo, my grandpa stayed at home and didn't come."

The auntie stared at him, and immediately drank him out.

Guixi pursed her lips secretly, exited the main room, peeped at the aunt and muttered in her heart, she was just a mud leg jumping out of the field, pretending to be a big family, and she had to learn how to call people in the big house, who is it?

This time I still want to drive him away, if it weren't for the fact that Uncle Guo's house and Aunt Zhao's house have a business relationship, and he has to live in the house every day to reconcile the account books, he wouldn't want to suffer this stupid crime.

As soon as he came out, an old lady next to him greeted him, and she wiped the apron with a few pairs of chopsticks in her hand, "Nephew, what are you arguing about in the room, what's wrong with Mrs. Yang?" moth?"

Guixi sighed, cast a glance into the main room and said, "Hey, Aunt Zhang, you don't know, this Aunt Guo insists on making me call her Da Furen, and call me Uncle Guo Master, but this Uncle Guo is The village head of our Shangyang Village, how can you call me like that, I made a mistake just now, why don't you just drive me out."

The woman surnamed Zhang snorted. The woman in the main room was Guo Yang, the daughter-in-law of the head of Shangyang Village. In the early years, her family was poor, and she was sold to a rich family as a servant girl. The husband's family has gained a lot of face in the village, but they are frightened.

She said, "Hey, big brother, what's the matter, I still have to call that lotus girl Miss, hey, that's a really awkward name, and it's Mrs. Yang who can be a bad person."

Guixi shook her head bitterly after hearing this, and the woman surnamed Zhang said again, "By the way, nephew, when you go back later, you can tell Lao Zhao's family for me. I will go back to work in that workshop tomorrow." Go, I don't want to be an old lady who waits on orders here, you have a good relationship with his family, you can help me talk about it."

Guixi was thinking about it, and the woman put two boiled eggs and a big cucumber in the stove and stuffed them for him, saying that it was a hot day on the road to quench his thirst, and Guixi had no choice but to agree to the soft-mouthed and short-handed ones. up.

The woman surnamed Zhang looked at Guixi biting a cucumber and going out, the stone in her heart fell to the ground, and she muttered in her heart that her old Zhao family was very close to Mrs. Yang, and even helped the lotus girl to talk about her in-law's family. Isn't it because the two families are doing business in partnership, so Mrs. Yang's family takes the majority.

But it is her business that the old Zhao's family is willing to be Mrs. Yang's servant girl. She is so old, so it is not reasonable to ask that little woman to yell and yell all day long.

This time the room shouted again, "Mother Zhang~~~"

The woman surnamed Zhang had a downcast face, and asked if she should calm down, she grabbed the chopsticks and walked into the main room, with her hands on her hips, she looked at the aunt who was sitting on the bamboo chair.

She frowned and muttered, "Sister Yang, I came here to be your cooking lady, not to be your old mother. Besides, we all live in the same village, so why even shout Master, madam, we don’t like this in Shangyang Village.”

Yang crossed her legs and swept her clothes lazily, "Mother Zhang, you have stayed at our house for three or two months, why are you still talking about this? You have to guard my house if you take our family's wages." The rules, did Aunt Zhao stop talking to you?"

The woman surnamed Zhang held her breath, put her hands together, and muttered in a low voice, "She just asked me to be the cooking woman, and she didn't say anything after it was over."

Mrs. Yang grinned, "Finally, my old Guo is also a village head after all, but he is in charge of a village. If he was in a big town, he would be an official. Isn’t the name the old lady’s?”

The woman surnamed Zhang pursed her lips, "I don't understand what you are saying, but we are in Shangyang Village, so there are so many tricks."

Mrs. Yang ignored it, and continued to say, "Mother Zhang, what about Master?"

The woman surnamed Zhang rolled her eyes, knowing that Mrs. Yang would not listen to what she said, anyway, she would suffer from it any more, she thought about it, "This morning, the rooster of the old Zhou's family beat the hen of the grandma's family." He was hooked into the shed, and the two of them quarreled for a long time, so Guo and the master went to have a look."

Mrs. Yang said lightly, "Hey, you said my old Guo, I still have to take care of such small things, really, oh, what about the lady?"

The woman surnamed Zhang was impatient, and was about to speak when she heard a "bang" sound outside.

Lotus broke into the yard wearing a pretty pink dress, and ran back to the house without even taking a look, and closed the door of her house with a "snap" when she was done.

Mrs. Yang yelled something in the main room, but no one paid any attention to it. The woman surnamed Zhang looked at her with a smile, and pointed outside, "Oh, the lady from the official family outside is also like this. This big elbow is thrown, and the door is closed. Come on, is there a lot of movement?"

Yang's eyebrows drooped when she heard that, she got up and walked out, "Oh, really, I don't worry about the old and the young."

The woman surnamed Zhang was smiling, and Mrs. Yang came back after talking, went straight to the table, picked up the tea bowl on the table, took off the lid and drank it dry in one gulp, spitting out the tea residue went out again.

Looking at the Gao Sui in the bowl, the woman surnamed Zhang pursed her lips. Aren't these tea leaves sifted out when sifting tea?

Yang walked around the front yard and went to the lotus room. She closed the door so hard that she bounced the wooden boards away. Yang looked into the room and saw the lotus sitting in front of the dressing table and weeping. Well, during the time she came from the front, she was so angry that she threw clothes and shoes all over the room.

Mrs. Yang took a few pieces and put them on the bed, and passed the time to ask, "Girl, what's wrong with you, why are you so angry."

She wiped her eyes and watched Mrs. Yang come in, and said in a crying voice, "Mom, you said, it's best to go to Chu Ge at this time, I'm sure I've already had trouble with that bitch, but, but I passed by today, and the two of them are still fine, but the ones in the clear sky and the day are left in the field... making a fuss..."

Yang's eyes were straightened, "Yo, it's getting noisy, why are you making a fuss?"

There were teardrops on the lotus face, "Why are you making a fuss, are you the only one making a fuss!"

Mrs. Yang smiled after hearing this, and sat on the edge of the bed, "Why don't you say that you are still young, you just listened to Aunt Zhao's chatter a while ago, and now you are running around looking for fun to watch. Listen to it for a while, the longer you leave it, the worse it will sound, hasn't this story spread all over Xiayang Village, and Chu Ge hasn't heard it yet, how can the two of you be bad?"

He Hua slowed down her crying, thought about it, and said, "But, but Aunt Zhao heard what the fat sister-in-law said, that bitch woman is unscrupulous, she pretends to be flamboyant to seduce men, and she will live for a few days this time." Why, why hasn’t Chugo responded yet?”

Yang looked at the lotus, straightened her hair with her hand, and said slowly with her mouth curled up, "Isn't this fat sister-in-law alone, can't you convey the message well..."

He Hua stopped crying after hearing this, and raised her eyes to look at Yang in the bronze mirror, "Mother, what do you mean?"

Mrs. Yang smiled, "Mother said that, if there is another person to help fan the wind and lighten the fire, then Auntie Chuge... Hehe, this woman's reputation is rotten, No matter how good she is, that man still won't want her, if I were you, I'd take advantage of this opportunity and try my best..."

She looked at the lotus in the bronze mirror and continued, "This man, it belongs to him and he belongs to him. No matter who he lives with, you just need to think about it, use your brain and think carefully, and then you will be the one who lives with him." After taking away the people around him, wouldn’t it be easy to say anything at that time?”

He Hua looked back at Mrs. Liu, "Then, mother, what should I do?"

Mrs. Yang smiled, "Just ask if you know what you know. Do you see that Xiayang Village is close to us? Then you should walk around more, especially when you go to the end of the village. There are many old people and women there. Wouldn’t the wind just let it blow out there?”

Lotus stopped crying, calmed down and pondered...

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In the next few days, He Hua patiently didn't go to see Chu Ge, but went to chat with her aunt's house in Xiayang Village.

Today, she was going to take advantage of the fact that Gao's family was marrying a daughter, and have a good chat with the mothers-in-law at the end of the village. Earlier, she had spread the word of the fat sister-in-law all over the east of the village.

Lotus came over early in the morning, looking to talk to mothers-in-law and aunts in Gao's courtyard, and when she saw Liu Shi and Xiu Niang coming, she went back to the house to avoid it.

She watched in the room, instigated Wu Dazuizi to make a fuss in the future, so that she could take the opportunity to clean up Xiuniang.

Seeing that the big guy was getting angry and was clamoring to clean up that bitch, but unexpectedly, Mrs. Liu was here to do something bad.

She was muttering bitterly in the room that she was too busy running around the village these days, even though her mother had told her not to show her face earlier, but now she just didn't want to take advantage of that bitch for nothing.

Lotus opened the door curtain and went out, "Good Sixth Sister-in-Law, you wait first."

Seeing her, Mrs. Liu was taken aback for a moment, then greeted her with a smile, "What girl, let's chat for a while, this girl Xiuniang is still waiting for me outside the house, I'll call her in first."

He Hua looked at her and said, "Good Sixth Sister-in-Law, that's what I want to talk about, the sister-in-law of the Chu family can't ask her to come in."

After hearing this, Mrs. Liu asked, "Why, could it be that the girl has listened to the nagging of my old sisters, hey, that's just village gossip, but it doesn't catch your ears. The shadow is unreal..."

The lotus got hold of it, she smiled, "Look, even the good sixth sister-in-law said it, there is no truth to it, at least there is no shadow to this matter."

After hearing this, Mrs. Liu knew that she had said something wrong, so she hurriedly explained, but no one has listened to it right now...

(End of this chapter)