farmer's wife

Chapter 16

After shopping and leaving the shop, the sun was setting and it took half an hour to walk back to the village.

Xiao Lie carried the cloth, put the odds and ends sold along the way in the basket behind his back, put one hand slightly behind Fu Yan's waist, and led Xiao Jian out of the city with the other.

Chatting and walking for fifteen miles, the adults were quite relaxed, but Xiao Jian broke out in sweat after walking halfway.

"Let me take the cloth, you carry Ah Jian and go." Fu Yan wiped Xiao Jian's sweat, and took the things from Xiao Lie's hand.

Xiao Jian was hugged by her brother, and soon fell asleep on her stomach.

Fu Yan: "When I get home, let him go to bed first. I'll make dinner and call him when I'm done."

Xiao Lie: "Okay. I'm going to tidy up the vegetable patch in the backyard. I have to replant some small greens, lettuce, loofah, etc."

Fu Yan: "Except for the vegetable field in the backyard, how much land does our family have?"

Xiao Lie was silent for a while, then slowly said, "When the family was separated, four acres of medium-sized fields were allocated to us. I sold three acres for money, and there was one acres left. That one-acre field happened to be next to the village head's house. , I entrusted the village chief to plant it together.”

Xiao Lie slowly explained to Fu Yan: "The field is a medium-sized field, and the fertility in the field is not enough. One acre of land can get at most two stones of rice, but I still have to earn money for Ah Jian's medical treatment. It's not enough to rely on it. I entrusted the field to the village head. The village head’s family is generous and gives us back half of the rice or wheat produced in the field every year, enough for the three of us to eat.”

"Do you want to take back this mu of land?" Xiao Lie asked her.

"Forget it. I don't have much strength, and I don't know how to farm. You have to go hunting, and you will be tired if you add another acre of land. Besides, this acre of land can't earn much money."

Fu Yan calculated the situation at home.For an acre of land, she felt that it was not worth it, and she felt that it was not worth it, so she continued to entrust it to the village head's family.

Fu Yan: "My workmanship should be pretty good. I'll do some embroidery work to save money first, and I'll think of other ways later."

Seeing Fu Yan frowning slightly, seriously thinking about their future, Xiao Lie lightly touched her tender and rosy cheeks, "There is still me, don't worry."

Yes, what's the hurry, take your time.

Fu Yan smiled at him, tilted her head and rubbed his hand.

Xiao Lie and Fu Yan entered the village talking and laughing. Under the big banyan tree in the grain drying field at the entrance of the village, a group of women in the village were busy chatting with their work.

From a distance, I saw Xiao Lie's family of three entering the village, holding in their hands and carrying on their backs, the second wife Wang, the most talkative in the village, touched Xiao Lie's aunt Cui Xinghua, and motioned her to look at the entrance of the village.

Cui Xinghua moved a small bench and sat under the tree, doing nothing but holding a handful of melon seeds, chatting while nibbling.

Seeing that Xiao Lie and the two were about to turn the corner and go home, Cui Xinghua raised her voice and called out: "Look who this is! Yo, nephew, where did you get here? What good things did you buy? "

Being called to stop by Cui Xinghua, Xiao Lie had no choice but to stop and say hello.

"What did you buy?" Cui Xinghua looked curiously at the things in Fu Yan's arms.

Before Xiao Lie could speak, Cui Xinghua said again: "Cloth, this color is good. It just so happens that your younger brother is visiting a girl recently and needs to make him a new dress. I'll take it back and tell him that it's something you did as an older brother." Mind."

With that said, she was about to step forward and snatch the cloth from Fu Yan's arms.

When Xiao Lie was called to a stop, he looked at the village's aunts and aunts under the tree, and he just wanted to say hello and leave, but he didn't expect this wild and unreasonable elder aunt to come and grab something again.

In the past, he was stupid, and he didn't bother to argue with the woman, so as not to disturb Ah Jian who needed to rest more.

Now, he is married and has Fu Yan to protect him again.How could the cloth that Fu Yan bought for them be cheap for her? He retreated step by step. He didn't want Fu Yan to be bullied by this aunt all the time in the village.

Xiao Lie stepped forward to stop Cui Xinghua.

Cui Xinghua was puzzled. Before taking something from him, his eldest nephew didn't say anything.

Xiao Lie's tone was blunt: "Auntie, my wife bought this."

Cui Xinghua: "It's all one family, I'll go back and tell your brother, is this also his sister-in-law's wish?" Said, impatiently waved Xiao Lie's hand away, and went forward to get things again.

Fu Yan took two steps back, seeing that Xiao Lie was a little angry and wanted to push Cui Xinghua away again, and hurriedly pulled him.

There are people watching in front of her, if she wants to take your things, it's her cheek to take advantage; if Xiao Lie did anything to Cui Xinghua, it would be Xiao Lie's fault.If you start a fight with the elders, it may become Cui Xinghua's trick to manipulate them.

Xiao Jian was awakened by Cui Xinghua's loud voice, Fu Yan hugged him and put him on the ground.Xiao Jian hid behind her brother, it was this bad aunt again!
Fu Yan passed Xiao Lie, stood in front of him gracefully, and said softly with a smile:
"Don't make me laugh, Aunt Xiao, they are all from the village. When the younger brother of the Xiao family gets married, we will definitely send congratulatory gifts. How can these two coarse cloths be used as gifts?"

Cui Xinghua didn't understand the meaning of Fu Yan's words. One was to clarify the relationship between the two families, and the other was to say that she just told a joke to make people laugh.

Cui Xinghua was very happy when Fu Yan said that she would give a gift.Neither of the two bolts of cloth were bright colors, and they really didn't match her precious son.

When Xiao Lie got married, she could see Fu Yan brought three big dowry boxes.I heard that Fu Yan is a favored maid from a wealthy family, so she must have something good in her hands.

Thinking that Fu Yan wanted to give her son good things as a gift, she couldn't wait to ask: "What for? You have seen a lot of world, so you must have seen a lot of good things."

Fu Yan was not in a hurry: "I grew up with the lady in the mansion when I was a child, and the etiquette nuns in the mansion have carefully taught them."

Cui Xinghua frowned, have you been taught that rules are none of my business?

"Fu Yan remembers the teaching. This time, the gift should be based on the value of the gifts sent by others in the past. It is the correct way to be polite. Aunt Xiao, I will sort out the gifts that everyone sent when we got married. In the future, I will return it to everyone, and I will definitely not let everyone suffer, it is a loss of etiquette."

"You...you!" When Xiao Lie got married, his family just went to eat and drink with empty hands, so what could they expect in return.But what Fu Yan said was the same reasoning, Cui Xinghua couldn't refute it, and was choked by her for a while, speechless.

"Xiao Lie's family is right!" Aunt Zhang, the village chief's daughter-in-law, saw Cui Xinghua stop Xiao Lie's family from a distance and hurried over, fearing that they would suffer.

Hearing Fu Yan's polite, unerring and hard-hitting words, he was quite satisfied.Ah Lie has found a good wife!
"Hey, what are you doing all around there? It's getting dark, so you don't have to go home to cook for the boys? Come back quickly!" Aunt Zhang shouted at the group of women watching the theater not far away.

After watching a scene, everyone laughed and scattered, and went home together in twos and threes.As for Xiao Lie's new daughter-in-law, everyone had some comments in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)