C302 Whispers at the foot of the wall
Madame Song and Li hadn't read many books, but the logic was clear. After all, someone of such age was only interested in his son's serious bag of books.
After a while, Song Zhien realised that he was being teased by his mother. Immediately, he felt a bit embarrassed and annoyed, but after looking at the smile on his mother's face, that sense of shame and annoyance was slowly dispelled.
What could be more important than my mother's happiness in coming?
Old Lai Zi can entertain us with colorful clothes!
Song Zhien thought that if his mother was this happy every day, he would also be willing to play the fool.
Aunt Chen lied on the bed for three whole days after Chen Erniu and Xiu Chi returned to the room. Only then did she get up from the brick bed.
During this period of time when she was sick, Chen Daniu's wife did not go back on her words and always went back to the brick bed to serve her.
, who was originally holding his breath, finally calmed down.
But then his heart was pulled up by something else.
There were many rumors and rumors about his family. After he found his good friend Tian Wa and asked him about what happened, he immediately fell silent.
"Originally, I didn't want to tell you, but you still insisted on asking. Say, why are you going to pick up the thing that your two elders are covering with all their might?"
"I just want to know what's going on. Don't you know, every day I see my parents sighing, and Erniu and his wife acting as if they were enemies. I feel uncomfortable, isn't life just about family and the prosperity of everything?"
"So you're open-minded now?"
"No, it's even darker!"
Moreover, after his brother and his brother's wife returned, the atmosphere between the two of them was even more strange.
It didn't look like a couple sleeping in a blanket, but rather like enemies.
Abba and Mama sighed deeply every day.
Chen Daniu held onto a straw stick in his mouth, while the two squatted at the foot of the wall and talked.
"What should I do if you advise me?"
"What should we do? Who knows what we should do? Ever since the two of you were exposed, other than getting beaten up by your father and being scolded by your mother, what else did you get?"
"You can't come up with any ideas, but if Song Zhixiao was here, he would be able to help me think of something."
"You can drop it, Song Zhixiao, the only thing he will do here is sigh at you, what else can he do?"
Song Zhixiao was an honest man, he would definitely not come up with something like this.
Chen Daniu also understood this principle, but when he thought of this person, he wanted to say it again.
"I wonder how he is now. Although he should have already taken off his criminal record, at the border, he should still be living with his head on his belt, right?"
The moment he said this, the emotions of those around him sunk.
Tian Wa said, "Who knew that it would be better to just live comfortably at home. He was such an honest person and he wouldn't play tricks on others. If someone were to plot against him, it would all be .. Let alone a place like the battlefield, where life and death truly hinge on the heavens. "
"Yeah."
The two of them squatted down by the wall and sighed. They did not feel cold at all. A person walked by, and was greeted by the two of them with a wave of their hand.
"Third brother." Chen Daniu called for someone.
He was the third brother of Chen Daniu's family, the husband of the "Third Sister" who had quarreled with Chen Daniu's wife on the night of Chen Erniu's wedding.
Chen San walked over and asked curiously, "What are you doing here?" Hungry? Eating the northwest wind? "Can you eat your fill? Can you eat your fill? Count me in."
With that said, he took out a handful of beans and handed them over to the two of them.
"No, I fart all the time when I eat this." Chen Daniu was incomparably depressed.
"Isn't that good as well? It's the new year, and it's been a firecracker, so there's still some joy in it."
Chen San smiled as he handed the soybeans in his hand to the person beside him.
"I'll eat, I like eating this." Tadashi stretched out his hand and took the beans, crunching them one by one.
Chen Daniu was so annoyed by his argument that he told him not to eat anymore.
Chen San squatted on the other side of Chen Daniu.
"Don't even mention it, being leeward here is quite comfortable."
The sun rose and shone on his body. It was warm, and he felt like he had sneaked a moment of peace.
"We can still stay at home for a few more days. After the second day of the second month, we should be able to start working, right?"
The two of them looked at Chen Daniu, he was the one who led the way in handling the chores, he was the one who did the chores at home, but he did the chores at home instead.
Chen Daniu nodded his head: "En, we have decided to start the eighth of the second month, we will be counting with the great master."
Actually, the weather is still a little cold, but there's nothing we can do about it. We have to make money to support our families, there are old and young, everywhere is a place that requires money, and that is good too. This year, we sold some of our mountain goods, so we can still have some spare money during the spring.
"Of course, speaking of this, I have to thank Mian Niang for this. Our Abba even said that when it's spring, we can go up the mountain and cut a few sticks to make a basket, and we can also earn two dollars. This year, their land is even leased to our family. You say that this whole family is so kind, but why didn't they meet any good people? "
"I have an idea in mind, I wanted to tell my brothers." Chen Daniu opened his mouth.
"What are you talking about? There are no outsiders here. Why are you hesitating?" Chen San couldn't help but urge, unwilling to listen to his words.
"Un, it's like this. Look, this Mian Niang picks up so much water every day, going back and forth a dozen times, just say that she is rushing the hairy donkey cart to pull the water, it's not convenient at all. I thought, why don't we brothers discuss it and dig a well in front of her house so that she won't run so far back and forth. Besides, there is only one well in our village, no matter how busy we are, everyone will have to queue up. Another well, no matter if it is for Mian Niang or the rest of them, is a good thing. "
He looked at the two of them.
Tian Wu was still eating his soybeans, Chen San also picked up a straw stick and was about to put it in his mouth, just like Chen Daniu had done. When he saw Chen Daniu looking at him, he quickly said: "Look what I'm doing, I can only help. "However, you can't rush this matter. You have to wait until the time is right for you to be enlightened. With the cold weather right now, you definitely won't be able to dig anything out. No matter what, it will take at least three months."
Chen Daniu nodded his head: "En, that's what I meant, but at that time, we would either be busy with farming or everyone would be working on it, let's first agree on a date, just a day or two, that will be enough. No matter how busy we are, let's free up a day's time to dig this well. What do you think? "
"I said it already, I don't have any objections. Forget about other things, Mian Niang is Song Zhixiao's sister, then he will be our sister. Forget about everything else, just based on Song Zhixiao's face, we can only do this."
Chen Daniu turned to look at Tian Wa who was still eating his soybeans.
"Don't look at me, I'm just like Third Bro, I only know how to work, I don't know what Zhang Luo is doing. When you say you can do it, we can do it, not to mention you, but actually I also have the same idea." Tian Wa looked up: "Don't look at me, I'm like Third Bro, I only know how to work, I don't know what Zhang Luo can do. Look at her as a girl, I also treat her as a girl. Just say it, if we do that, won't those old ladies in the village talk again? "
Chen San didn't seem to mind. "What's there to say? Let's just pull him along. What we do is fair and square. What's there to be afraid of? These old women can't say anything even if they've grown a crow in their mouths."
"Hmph, you're still talking about others? The one with the longest tongue is that woman of yours."
"Heh, you! Eating my wife's beans and even saying bad things about my wife? You really don't know her well, and she's even existing on the spot."
"Just because your wife is good at stir-fried soybeans doesn't mean that anything else is good. Even if you are eating the Red Braised Meat that she stewed, I still want to say that your wife has a long tongue."
Chen Sanyang had gone after Tian Wa, chasing him away.
He squatted back down and apologized to Chen Daniu: "I heard about what happened that day, and in truth, it is your Third Sister-in-Law's fault. She shouldn't be talking nonsense during his happy days, go back and talk this out with my aunt on my behalf, tell them not to forget this, and your wife, and don't take revenge on your Third Sister-in-Law just because of this."
"Remember, don't hold a grudge. You can't blame my Third Sister-in-Law for this. Even if he didn't say anything, she wouldn't have been able to cover it up."
Chen San sighed. "Then Erniu .."
"Who knows? It's already like this. We still have to live on."
Chen Daniu said with uncertainty.
He looked at Chen San and felt that this person's brain was still sharper than his, and wanted him to help him with an idea.
"I am a person with a confused mind, very stupid, only working is fine, the rich and rich I don't want to, I just want to see a family sitting at a table and chatting and laughing, but you said that our family is like this .."
"You ask me, I have no idea, but I want to ask you, you said that you are living in the outside world, you cannot talk when you meet people, you can't say that you are shrewd, but you can still be considered to be well-off, with so many people working with you, and you are not even seen to have any problems, why do you think that your family is so unfair?"
"Ai, you don't know, I can't retort to whatever this My Abba Mistress has said, and also that prodigal wife of mine can't be beaten up nor scolded, this prodigal wife is really -"
"Damn Chen Daniu, I was talking about you for so long, how come I can't see you? Do you think that it's as though you're talking bad about your wife under the wall?"
The voice above his head sounded like it was exploding the sky. Chen Daniu immediately raised his head and saw his wife holding a basin of water, standing inside the wall, staring at him angrily.