Mu Yangling watched the Liu family beating people, eager to try, but before she could roll up her sleeves, Mu Shi hurried over. He covered her daughter's mouth, pulled her back, and lowered her voice. He shouted, "Didn't you say you're here to help your aunt collect rice? Who told you to interrupt, you arrogant child? Do you want to get married in the future?"

Mu Shi was only halfway there when he heard several half-year-old teenagers there vividly saying that his daughter had taught her that her great aunt had pulled Ma Dagui's family down before she died, and he was so angry that his head was about to smoke.

"Hurry up and take your cousins ??and cousins ??to harvest rice. This is an adult's business. You are not allowed to mix in. If you don't obey me again, I won't take you when I go out."

Mu Yangling shrank his neck, gave a dejected "Oh", and stepped forward to hold Liu Ting and the others who were watching with relish, and said, "Let's go and help the aunt's house to harvest rice, cousin, take us there." Yang Ling reached out and pulled Ma Xiuhong.

Ma Xiuhong looked at her grandmother and the field, a little worried.

Liu Ting patted his chest and said, "Cousin, don't worry, with my grandfather here, no one can bully my aunt."

Ma Xiuhong took her sister's hand and led everyone to the field. She glanced at Mu Yangling and whispered, "Thank you cousin."

Mu Yangling raised her eyebrows, and Ma Xiuhong said, "If it weren't for my cousin, my uncle and the others wouldn't come here."

"You should have called someone back and called Uncle. Although they are busy, they can still squeeze in a few days for the aunt's business."

Ma Xiuhong shook her head and whispered, "My grandmother's affairs are different. The goddess said that she is a child and a grandson."

Mu Yangling frowned, "Do you believe?"

"I don't believe it," Ma Xiuhong shook her head, "but everyone else believes it. Grandma said it, and my uncle also believes it..."

Mu Yangling stopped talking for a moment, but she thought about it in her heart. With this reputation, no matter how hard her aunt worked, she would be rejected by the people of Xishan Village and the Ma family, and even her parents would not treat her too much.

Otherwise, with Linshan Village's situation of protecting the shortcoming, it is impossible for her to not stand up for her great aunt in recent years. After all, her great aunt is still burdened by this reputation.

Mu Yangling squinted his eyes, the four villages are not too far away, turn left along the main road and walk for half an hour.

The six children stood in the field, and Mu Yangling said: "I'm going to pull the thatch, and you guys will rub the rope behind you. When you come back, you can bring the rice, and I'll tie it. We'll carry it back when it's almost tied."

Everyone obeyed Mu Yangling's arrangement. Several children, including the youngest Ma Xiulan, were also used to farm work, so their hands and feet were very fast. Liu Rong and Ma Xiuhong took care of her again, and the children were scrambling, but they didn't even bother at all. Feeling tired, when it was almost noon, the rice in the two fields was all **** by six children.

Mu Yangling waved his hand and said, "I will carry it in the afternoon, and you can go play."

Liu Ting smiled and said: "Why is it so troublesome, a few uncles are still there, they each carry a few more times and they are finished."

Mu Shi didn't want his daughter to be too tired, but he didn't agree with letting the sons of the Liu family help the aunt carry the rice, "Everyone is here to ask for advice, if they are dragged to do farm work, they won't say it, but they must be in their hearts. It's a little uncomfortable, so it's better for our grandfather and your two cousins ??to go, our grandfather is strong, and it's almost the same for a few back and forth."

"Father is the master." Mu Yangling asked curiously, "Father, where are they?" Now there is no one in the valley.

"I was invited to his house by the patriarch of the Ma family. I guess you are almost here, so I will come and have a look."

"What does the Ma family say?"

Sisters Ma Xiuhong also pricked up their ears, Mu Shi touched their heads, and said, "The Guchang will not be divided again, what happened yesterday was wrong with Ma Dagui's family, and I have to apologize to your great aunt, because your great aunt also took his family The rice was thrown on the road, and some losses were lost, so there is no compensation."

Mu Yangling frowned, "Isn't this partial? It's so obvious."

"Okay, it's not bad to have this result. Ma Dagui has three sons and seven grandsons." In this era, having a son is king.

Although Mu Yangling was helpless, he could not adapt to this rule.

Everyone went back to Ma's house. The aunt was already cooking rice. Seeing Mu Yangling and the others coming back, she couldn't help but wipe away her tears, stepped forward and grabbed Mu Yangling's hand and said, "You child, you are too upright. , like your grandmother, such a temperament man will suffer, let alone a girl? Thank you auntie, you can't be so impulsive anymore, you have to talk about your in-law's family. "

Mu Yangling was afraid that if he didn't nod, he would be taken out for education alone, so he nodded and said, "I see, auntie."

Ma Liu sighed in relief, and said to Mu Shi: "Go and deal with that goat. I'll take a few children to pick vegetables in the vegetable garden. The rice is already cooked, just look at the fire."

Mu Shi should go down.

Seven or eight-year-old children can do a lot of housework, except for Mu Yangling, so Ma Liu has a few children to join, and they will soon make a fire and cook.

Because there is a lot of mutton, Ma Liu has no scruples. First, cook a large pot of mutton soup, then braise the mutton. Now, it has become a small fried rabbit meat. In the past, it was not bad to have a meat dish on the table. Now that there are so many dishes, Ma Liu is very satisfied.

Waiting for Liu Daqian to bring everyone back, smelling the fragrance, they all swallowed their saliva and looked at the kitchen eagerly.

Ma Liu took the bowls and chopsticks out and said with a smile: "Quickly set the table, the food is ready."

Liu Zhuang ran out first and said with a smile, "I'm coming, I'm coming, aunt, where is the support?"

"Just in the yard, it's shaded and windy here, cool."

In order to eat early, everyone rolled up their sleeves, and soon two tables were filled, but although they swallowed at the food on the table, no one dared to move the chopsticks first, waiting for the elders to move the chopsticks first.

And at the table of the elders, he looked at Liu Daqian.

Liu Daqian sat on the top, moved his chopsticks and put a piece in his mouth, chewed it, swallowed it, and said to everyone: "Okay, everyone can eat."

Liu Zhuang grabbed the chopsticks anxiously, and waited for the uncles and elders to grab the chopsticks before gobbling up the meat and vegetables.

They are not like the Mu family. They are born hunters. They don’t go into the mountains empty-handed.

And when the farming is busy, I can only go to the town to buy a few taels of meat to smell the meat. Naturally, the meat is eaten by the children and the elderly at home.

Mu Yangling's children were not allowed to serve the table, so the aunt was not too biased towards them. Originally there was only a small bowl of meat and vegetables, Mu Shi directly took two bowls and evenly mixed a lot of them and put them in the main room for them to eat.

Six children sat on small stools around a small table made of wooden boards, and quickly pulled the meat and vegetables in the basin.

Liu Lun grabbed a piece of mutton with his hand and gnawed it, and said vaguely: "I know that I have meat to eat with my cousin, cousin, next time you go into the mountains and hunt unwanted prey, return it to us, my brother's barbecue skills are very good. already."

Liu Rong looked up at her brother and looked at Mu Yangling eagerly. Mu Yangling said, "Besides, I've been a little busy recently. If you guys want to eat meat, go to me and I'll catch a rabbit for you." With a frown, "There are too many rabbits today. If we don't catch more, the rabbits in the spring next year will be a disaster."

PS: I'm thinking, should we add more updates on New Year's Day?