farmhouse ditty

Chapter 83

Chu Fu carried the load back and forth twice to fill up the water in the jar. This man has long legs, big strides, and strong arms. He carried four buckets of water like a normal walk, but he didn't spill any.

Originally, Xiuniang used to make big wooden barrels, so she carried them every time, carrying two and a half barrels back, but this was still enough for the family to make for a day, but now that there are more people in the family, she let Chu Fu A tank full of water.

Xiu Niang had cooked porridge right now, and was digging out chicken coops in the fence to get eggs, thinking about going back to the stove and frying them in a pan, so everyone ate one.

Chu Fu lifted the wooden bucket, dragged the bottom of the bucket with one hand, and poured all the stream water he had just brought back into the tank.

But when the last bucket was poured, the water tank was full, and he still had half of the bucket left.

He put the wooden bucket on the ground and said to Xiu Niang, "Sister and sister, don't you say there is a water tank at home?"

Xiu Niang raised her eyes and looked at him, "Oh, what's the matter, brother? That little vat is in my room."

Chu Fu said, "It's nothing, I'm thinking about pouring out this bucket of water and picking another load."

Xiu Niang came out with a few eggs in her hand, turned around and tied up the fence, and after hearing what Chu Fu said, she smiled, "Brother, let's go after eating first, everything will be fine, you put this Carry half a bucket of water into the stove, and later I will store it in the pot and boil it, so that the parents-in-law and mother-in-law can take a bath after eating."

When Chu Fu picked up a load just now, Mrs. Shen yelled to take a bath. Father Chu wanted to talk about something, but look at himself, he also asked Xiu Niang for a pot of hot water.

Xiuniang thinks about it too, last night Father Chu and his wife stayed at the second uncle's house, they didn't even bring a change of clothes when they went there, where did they go to take a bath?

Although life in the country is not so particular, it is common to wash the body every three or four days, but earlier, Father Chu and his wife had been busy in Shangyang Village, packed up their belongings, and then moved to Xiayang Village. There must have been a lot of sweating that time, and I was bored all night again yesterday, no one can bear it.

Chu Fu responded, glanced at the courtyard, put the wooden bucket into the stove, and asked casually, "Hey, brother and sister, why are you alone? Where are parents and second brother?"

Xiu Niang stepped aside so that Chu Fu could come out first, and pointed to the main room, "My father-in-law and mother-in-law are looking for clothes in the house, and Chu Ge went to the sixth sister-in-law's house next door to call Chu An and Xiao Xiang'er."

"Sister-in-law...brother..."

She just finished talking, and Chu Ge came over with the two younger siblings. The two little devils shouted joyfully when they saw Xiu Niang, but they looked at Chu Fu and just yelled lightly.

Chu Fu looked at his younger siblings, and responded with a smile, "Hey."

The two brats were probably still harboring suspicions about what happened earlier, Xiu Niang saw that the people had arrived, and said, "Chu Ge, you can set the table first, I'll scramble some eggs. "

Chu An heard that there were eggs to eat, and grinned, "Sister-in-law, I want a round one."

Xiao Xiang'er also echoed, "Sister-in-law, I want me too."

Xiu Niang looked at them and smiled, "Sure, I'll share two for you."

Chu Ge stretched out his hand and rubbed the heads of the two of them, then stepped into the courtyard to move the table.

Xiu Niang found a larger earthenware pot, put all the porridge in it, wiped the pot with a rag, oiled it, and fried a few eggs in it, then poured soy sauce on it and took it out.

Chu An and Xiao Xiang'er helped with the bowls and chopsticks, and when Xiu Niang finished serving, she called Chu Ge to ask Father Chu and Mrs. Shen to come and eat.

Seeing that Wen Shi didn't come out, Chu Fu picked up a bowl of porridge and two eggs and went into the house, and came out after a while.

Seeing the dissatisfaction in her stomach, Shen babbled while drinking the porridge.

Father Chu didn't move his chopsticks on the eggs in the middle of the table. He didn't know if he didn't like to eat them or he wanted to save them for his children. He just dipped his chopsticks into the soy sauce on the plate and drank it Most of the bowl.

Xiuniang looked at it, got up and went back to the stove, picked up some pickles from the sauce jar that she brought in yesterday, and put it in front of Father Chu, "Elder-in-law, if you feel that eating eggs in the morning smells fishy, ​​you can make do with it." Some pickles."

Old man Chu held the bowl and shook his chopsticks towards him, "Hey, it's kind of nice, come, come, let's put it aside."

Mrs. Shen looked at Father Chu, elbowed him, and Xiao Mo said in a low voice, "You old man, why do you eat pickles if you have eggs?"

Father Chu picked up pickles with his chopsticks, and said "tsk", "Hey, you old woman, you can eat whatever you want, you can eat whatever you want, you can take it easy. "

Mrs. Shen glared at him resentfully, and muttered a few words in her mouth, just saying, "I don't have a heart, you don't eat my old lady."

In fact, Shen Shi saw Xiu Niang present, so she temporarily confessed, because she was still afraid of what happened in the morning, thinking about what she was going to say, and wondered what this little woman would do again. thing to come.

After waiting for half an hour, the family finally finished eating. Xiu Niang packed up the dishes and went to the stove to scrub. She had boiled a pot of water before eating, and now it looked like it was boiling.

After she finished washing the dishes, she called Chu Ge, told him to take out the big wooden basin in the yard, and gave it to Chu Fu to put it in the main room.

This time, Father Chu and Mrs. Shen have to go to the main room if they want to take a bath, because that room is more spacious in this family now.

Xiuniang asked Chu Fu to take it into the room. Firstly, Wen Shi stayed in the room and it was inconvenient for Chu Ge to go in. Second, it was Chu Fu who took it into the room, so he could call Wen Shi out.

She ladled the water into the wooden bucket, and asked the elders for their advice to make the water warmer. When Chu Fu came out with Wen Shi, Chu Ge was taken into the house.

Xiu Niang put a bamboo basket at the door, saying that she asked Father Chu and Mrs. Chen to put the dirty clothes in it after washing, so that she could gather them together and wash them.

Wen Shi went out of the house and found a cool place to sit down, Chu Fu put some clothes on her chair to make it softer, and brought out the capers he bought yesterday as snacks for her.

Wenshi ate indifferently, and said sarcastic remarks in his mouth, which basically meant that Xiuniang occupied her own room and refused to use it, and she had to drive her out of the room to make room for her in-laws. For bathing.

Xiu Niang glanced at her and murmured to herself, the room you are hiding in now is still hers, if you hadn't brought a bunch of messy things to the village, she would have filled her own back room Is it full?

Anyway, Xiuniang didn't bother to argue with Wen Shi at this moment, she went to the kitchen and brought out two bamboo baskets, talked to Chu Ge and went out.

"Chu Ge, look at the water in the stove. I went to the field to pick some vegetables and came back. The former one is almost wilting and yellow."

Chu Ge responded, and asked Xiao Xiang'er and Chu An to go out and pick up some firewood. Anyway, there was nothing to do now. Seeing their sulking looks, he didn't want to stay with Wen Shi.

Xiu Niang went out of the house with two baskets, in fact, she wanted to go to the field to pick Erbao vines, and at this time of year, Erbao vines stopped working after opening, so she had to hurry up and pick more.

She walked towards Mrs. Liu's house, and from there she managed to get to the big dirt road at the entrance of the village, which was closer to her vegetable field.

Xiuniang passed by the door, coincidentally Mrs. Liu also came out with a hoe, guessing that she was going to go to the field, she looked at it and said hello first.

Seeing her, Mrs. Liu grinned, "Oh, sister, what are you doing?"

Xiu Niang weighed the bamboo basket in her hand, "I won't be idle now, I'll go to the field to have a look, and pick some vegetables by the way."

Mrs. Liu sighed, "Hey, I'll go to the fields too, but we don't agree, so why not hurry up and chat."

Xiuniang knew that Mrs. Liu wanted to ask about yesterday's incident, so she said, "Then I'll walk with Sixth Sister-in-law for a while."

Mrs. Liu mumbled and pointed to the left, and then pointed to the right, "Sister, you want to go this way...I want to go that way, if you walk with me, then going to the field will not be a problem." Is it far away?"

Xiu Niang smiled and took Liu Shi's arm, "It's okay, let's go, I have something to talk to Sixth Sister-in-Law as soon as possible."

Mrs. Liu also smiled when she heard that, "That's good, let's go."

The two of them walked back while they were talking. When they passed by their own yard, Xiu Niang glanced in. Father Chu had already come out of the shower and was calling Chu Fu to pour the water out.

Mrs. Liu kept asking, and Xiu Niang simply told what happened yesterday and this morning. Anyway, there is a wall in their house, and it is true that there is something wrong.

They chattered and went down the slope, Liu Shi listened to what Xiuniang did, and laughed happily, "Oh, I said sister, it's you... Hahaha... No wonder I listened to that aunt this morning. Howling..."

Xiu Niang looked at Liu Shi happily, but she was not happy at all, so she sighed.

"Oh, actually, I also want to take good care of my in-laws, but my mother-in-law, how can I put it, she just doesn't like me, but my husband and father-in-law are very nice, and they talked to me this morning."

Mrs. Liu smiled enough, and said, "Hey, this mother-in-law is difficult, the father-in-law solves the problem, the daughter-in-law is angry, and the man at home sighs, it's the same in every family."

Xiu Niang just smiled when she heard it, and she was right, if she kept fighting with Shen Shi like this, wouldn't Chu Ge be caught in the middle?

Mrs. Liu said to Pengpeng Xiuniang, "Hey, sister, how is your aunt? I saw her suffocating yesterday, but her stomach is full of guts."

Xiuniang thought the same as Mrs. Liu in her heart, but she said, "Hey, is she from a wealthy family? After reading some books, she thinks about things for a long time. I don't want us to be like this. I can't worry about things. I want to Say whatever you want."

Mrs. Liu smiled, "That's the way to be a human being. Don't you think you're tired of always hiding things?"

Xiu Niang looked at Mrs. Liu and smiled, "Sister-in-law Liu, you are the only one in our village who is straightforward. What you said just now is right, but you can't keep your mind on it. You are nagging everyone you see."

Mrs. Liu was busy shaking her head, "Hey, that's not it. I can say what I can say, but what I can't say just rots in my stomach. It depends on what's going on, right?"

Xiuniang nodded after hearing this, and what she wanted was Mrs. Liu's words, 'What can't be said just rots in my stomach', she looked at Mrs. Liu and smiled, "Sister-in-law Liu, this is what you said. I've got something to ask for your help..."

(End of this chapter)