Flowers are expensive

Chapter 128: Seeing Pear Blossoms for the First Time 1
"Still thinking about Brother Man Ting?"

"Oh, why is it so easy to forget? He really likes him. Did you forget about Ma Liu? Not so fast?" Lihua joked, but felt extremely uncomfortable in her heart.Falling in love with a man for the first time in this life, but to be separated like this, what kind of thing is it?Cuiyue smiled miserably and said: "It has been said that we are sisters who are desperate for the same fate and love each other. No matter how uncomfortable you feel, I feel the same."

"Otherwise, we two, Lily, forget it! Why do we need to find a man to live with?" Lihua joked.

"Lily?" Cuiyue asked confusedly, "What is a lily?"

"Hahaha...they are sisters who love each other!" Lihua laughed loudly, and ran forward a few steps, as if to evacuate all the depression in her heart.She looked up at the scattered cotton-like white clouds floating in the blue sky in the distance, and said silently in her heart: I really miss you, Xie Manting, but I have to start my life again, don't I?I hope you can recover your memory and go back to your Jingyou City. In this way, we will forget each other, and we will never see each other again...

Cuiyue stepped forward to tug on Lihua, and smiled at her tacitly.The two walked forward, one on the left and one on the right, holding Mama Li's arm, as if they were a mother and daughter as close as a family.Mama Li was a little flattered, she never expected that when she grew old, she would be able to have two such good-looking and capable goddaughters, and she would smile even if she was unhappy.As she walked, she pointed to familiar places for Lihua and Cuiyue, where was the river where she washed clothes, where was her family's field, and where was the man's house where she planned to betroth her Ah Nuan... I don't know. Suddenly, the three of them had already walked to Mama Li's old house.

Once here, Mama Li didn't see her original dilapidated small courtyard, but a new one. Gray smoke was billowing from the chimney of the kitchen, and the pigs in the pigsty were humming lazily.

At that moment, she turned pale and covered her heart, staggered a few steps back, and shouted hastily: "What a god!" Lihua and Cuiyue hurriedly supported her, and after she struggled to stand still, her gaze Moistly looking at the things on the original land of his house, he was so angry that he couldn't say a word, this is more tragic than people leaving tea to cool!He didn't say he couldn't come back, and he planned to build a cemetery in his hometown in the future, so that the fallen leaves would return to their roots, so that Ah Nuan would take his son back to his hometown to worship from time to time.But now even the house has been taken away!
Someone in the hall heard Li's mother's voice, came out to have a look, was a little startled, turned around and shouted to the room: "Mother, the second aunt is back! The second aunt is back!" The cry was a little startled, It was as if a cat had scratched it, and Lihua and Cuiyue couldn't help laughing.

"What kind of second aunt? What kind of second aunt are you?" A peasant woman slightly older than Li's mother said as she came out of the west room while patting the white ashes on her body.

"Mom, look quickly! Look quickly! It's really Second Aunt who is back!" A man in his 30s who spoke, pointed at Li's mother standing outside the gate and shouted excitedly.

The peasant woman looked at the door, as if her eyes were not very good, she hurriedly took a few steps closer to look again, she suddenly leaned back, and shouted as if seeing a ghost: "Why are you back?" My mother rushed into the yard, pointed at the peasant woman's nose and cursed: "You are much smarter than a pig, you surnamed Zhu! Why did you occupy my house while I was away? When did I say no?" came back!"

The peasant woman's face turned pale at first, and then turned red again, she was obviously at fault, but she yelled louder than Mother Li: "My surname is Li, you are a round plum that is covered in gold dust, what are you doing when you come back? Where did my family occupy you? That piece of land was handed down from the ancestors. Your man is dead, and you have no son. Is it possible that there is still some place left? Ask for it now, there is no way! Go away, give it to me quickly. I am going out!"

As he spoke, Mrs. Zhu picked up a stick of firewood from the courtyard dam, and waved it at Mama Li, as if to hit her.Mother Li was furious, and naturally she refused to give up. She stretched her neck and shouted at Mrs. Zhu, "I don't have a son, and I still have Ah Nuan! That piece of land was allocated to our house by the family, why do you occupy it?" Go? Hurry up and get your tiles away, I don't care about your house!"

"Huh!" Mrs. Zhu blushed, and sneered with her hands on her hips, "Get away? You can get rid of it as soon as you say it. Who do you think you are? Your man is dead. According to the rules of the Wu family, the house should be Take it back and make another distribution, this is a rule passed down from the ancestors, don’t you know? If you don’t know, go to your man’s grave and ask for clarification, and stop messing around here!”

"Nonsense!" Li's mother anxiously stepped forward to fight with Mrs. Zhu, but Mrs. Zhu hit her with a stick.Mother Li was not easy to provoke, she took two steps back, covered her arms and screamed, "Kill someone! Mr. Wu beat someone! Come and see!"

Seeing that Mama Li was yelling, Mrs. Zhu provoked the two nearby families to come out of the courtyard to watch the excitement. She was anxious and shy, and hurriedly waved her stick to catch up.Cuiyue hurriedly pulled Mama Li behind her, and Lihua took Zhu's stick and threw it away first, "You try to beat me again! If there is anything wrong with my godmother's body, let's talk in the yamen!"

Mrs. Zhu was stunned for a moment, then looked Lihua up and down, looking extremely surprised.After a moment of silence, she suddenly sneered, pointed at Lihua and Cuiyue and said to Li's mother, "Yo? This is your goddaughter? I'm afraid you gave birth to some wild man outside! I dare not say it's my own. You really did it, the one whose surname is Li! Since you’re going to come back to rob the house, why don’t you recognize your son? That makes sense!”

"You stupid pig's mouth, I'll tear your mouth off!" Li's mother made a gesture to go forward to fight with Mrs. Zhu.Lihua hurriedly blocked her behind her, and said to Mrs. Zhu: "Now let's show you your skills, and then go talk in our yamen! You are so noisy, you can only count yourself if you go to the county master to quarrel!"

"Go to the yamen?" Mrs. Zhu put one hand on her hip, pointing at Lihua, and said, "Why do you tell us to go to the yamen? If you want to go, sue! This is the Wu family's rule, and you can't sue even if you sue!"

"You still don't believe that you are illiterate and illiterate!" Li Hua said with a contemptuous smile.

"What blindness? How dare you call me blind?" Mrs. Zhu shouted with wide-eyed eyes. "Your old man is not only illiterate and illiterate, is he? By the way, he is also a little deaf? Which ear of yours heard me call you blind? I said that you can't read or understand the law. Do you understand? Is it possible that you understand a little bit?"

The onlookers couldn't help covering their mouths and sniggering.Zhu's face turned red and then blue, and he yelled at Lihua anxiously: "You have the guts... If you have the guts, go and sue!"

"Of course I'm going to sue for my godmother," Lihua said with a smile, "You think I won't dare to go after a few words? Let me tell you, if you don't understand the law, just ask someone who has read the book." If I remember correctly, there are clear provisions in the law of this dynasty regarding inheritance. Daughters and sons enjoy the same inheritance rights, and no village family rules can be used to prevent daughters from inheriting inheritance. What's more, my natal family is still alive, and there are My dear daughter, why is it your turn to occupy that piece of land? If you don’t believe me, wait until the court and see how the county master judges!”

Mrs. Zhu was confused, and asked repeatedly: "What inheritance, what inheritance? You made it clear!"

"When you're looking for someone to write the petition for you, ask yourself clearly! If I explain it to you, I'll have to charge a lawyer's fee!" Lihua turned around and helped Mama Li with a smile after speaking, "Let's go, godmother, Let's find someone to write a complaint, and we don't want to talk nonsense with them."

"Okay, just sue," Li's mother was so angry that her heart was heaving, she pointed at Zhu Shi and said, "If I don't want the land back, I will be sorry for my dead man, and even more sorry for my family, Ah Nuan! You wait, The surname is Zhu!"

"Wait..." The three of them ignored Mrs. Zhu shouting behind them, went straight out, and walked towards Mrs. Xian's house.Not long after walking, a peasant woman who was about the same age as Mama Li hurried up from behind, holding a basket in her hand, and shouted: "Sister Li, wait!" Mama Li stopped, turned around and saw that It was Liu's sister from the same village.The two got along very well when they were young, and they always loved to work and play together.She hurriedly restrained her anger, held Liu Shi's hand and said with a smile: "Yo, I just scolded that pig's head meat, but I didn't see you, how have you been all these years?"

"You still recognize me! You have been away for more than ten years, and you didn't even come back to visit a grave. I thought your family didn't plan to come back!"

"No matter where, the fallen leaves will always return to their roots. My grave has not been repaired, so it will come back."

"Don't talk about those frustrating words! By the way, do you have a place to live now?" Mrs. Liu asked enthusiastically, "There is no appointment, why don't you come to my house to live for two days before making any plans?"

"I'll rest at Xing'er's place, so I won't bother you."

"Well, I won't bother you any more, so that Xing'er won't talk about me! By the way, you can take this and let Xing'er fry it for lunch," Liu Shi said, stuffing the basket in her hand to Mama Li. , looked at Lihua and Cuiyue with a smile and said, "The two nieces are back, I don't have anything good to bring, so I picked up a few eggs, if you don't like it, just keep it!"

Mother Li lifted the blue cloth covering the basket and saw that there were more than a dozen eggs and goose eggs nestled inside. She hurriedly smiled and said, "Then why are you so embarrassed? I will accept such a big gift from you as soon as I come back!"

"They're all old sisters, don't push around here, keep it, it's just eggs laid by your own chickens and geese."

Lihua and Cuiyue thanked each other.Liu Shi looked at the two of them again, his eyes seemed to reveal a different kind of light, the corners of his mouth were pursed, and he didn't say what was in his heart for a while.After chatting with Li's mother for a few words, she left in a hurry.

When the three of them returned to Xian's home, the square table in the hall was full of things.Mrs. Xian came out of the kitchen in a hurry, wiped her hands behind her buttocks, and said to Mama Li: "Just as you left the front door, the presenter came back. Look, these are peanuts from Minzi's family. It's the gray flour from Jiao'er's family, this is... ouch, I forgot who sent this egg!" She turned around and asked Bao'er who was chopping firewood in the yard, and Bao'er responded "It was sent by Brother Chang Ming's family!" Mrs. Xian nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, yes, it was sent by Chang Ming."

Mother Li smiled and said, "I still remember that child Chang Ming, do you have a wife now?" "Not yet! By the way, auntie, how do you deal with these things?" Xian asked with a smile.

"Take it all, our mother has been disturbing your house these few days, so we have to spend some money, rice, oil and salt, it's embarrassing to say!"

"Oh, auntie, you're being polite. Not to mention relatives in the family, even fellow countrymen should lend a helping hand, right? Look at this thing, I'm really embarrassed to accept it. How about I put it in your room first Li, I will send you there when you have a place to live in later?"

"Just accept it, Cousin Xing'er," Cuiyue said with a smile, "If you hadn't accepted it, we would be ashamed to bother us here. What is this little thing, it can't compare to your kindness!" Xian Shi said with a smile on his face: "Cousin Yue really can talk! Let me tell you that, I won't be so hypocritical! That's all right, you sit down for a while, I'll collect my things and go to the kitchen to prepare meals."

"Do you want us to help?" Cui Yue asked.

"No, no, no," Xian Shi hurriedly waved his hands, "You just returned to the village, so you should rest!" After she finished speaking, she called Bao'er and Cui'er, and took away all the things on the table.

(End of this chapter)