Leisurely Farmer's Family: A Strong Man and His Broken Leg Son-in-law

Liu Yu saw her grandpa and grandma chopping bamboo pieces and skillfully weaving bamboo baskets, and the depression in her heart suddenly became much calmer.

He nodded to the second elder and went to the kitchen.

There are about two bowls of pimple soup left in the pot. Green green onions are dotted on top, and the golden plum blossoms are floating, which makes people more appetizing.

Liu Yu probed the side of the pot, and there was still residual heat, so she didn't bother to light the fire and add firewood. She took a large bowl and filled it out, and then added a ladle of water to the pot to moisturize it to prevent it from sticking later. The batter is difficult to wash.

The temperature of the pimple soup was just right. Liu Yu drank it three times, five by two, and quickly washed the pot. She didn't want to throw away the water after washing the pot. She mentioned the pig pen and poured it into the pig trough.

"Brother Yu, something happened this morning."

When Nian Cuihua saw that her grandson was finally busy, she beckoned Liu Yu over. She had raised this grandson single-handedly, and she knew all about his temperament. When Liu Yu came back, he had a stern look on his face, so she knew something must have happened. thing.

After the meal, Liu Yu's face relaxed a bit, and Nian Cuihua couldn't hold back the worry in her heart, so she still asked.

"Grandpa and grandma, I want to recruit someone to marry me." Liu Yu sat next to the old lady and said in silence for a while, and then repeated what she heard from Goudan's mouth in the morning.

Skin after skin, the grandson is no longer a son, let alone a great-grandson. Moreover, Liu Yu lost her mother when she was born. She grew up shitting and peeing day and night, which is no different from her old son.

Now that the child has suffered such injustice, Nian Cuihua feels very distressed despite the anger.

He patted Brother Yu's hand, looked at the old man and seriously considered the feasibility of this matter.

All those who are willing to marry into the family have many brothers and cannot afford a wife.

Liu Yu saw the two elders starting to pick up potential families in the village, and her brows furrowed more and more as she heard that these candidates were either lazy or handicapped, or they were too old.

Liu Yu was upset after hearing this, so she picked up the basket on the wall, greeted Liu Fusheng and Nian Cuihua, took the sickle, and went out to cut pigweed.

Liu Yu's family is at the end of the village. Zhuyuan Village is quite large. Hundreds of families live in twos and threes scattered at the foot of Cuifeng Mountain. Most of them build their houses near the bamboo forest or not far from the river. Their house is at the bend of the river, and five families live in it. This is also to take care of everyone.

"Brother Yu, let's fight pigweed!"

"Yes, aunt, you are doing laundry."

The speaker was the mother-in-law of Liu Yu's cousin Liu Maogen, a relative of the fifth generation of Liu Yu's family.

Liu Yuchong greeted the women and husbands washing clothes by the river, and then began to pick up the relatively fresh grass and cut it.

Three or four women were squatting on a specially built stone slab by the river, beating their clothes and chatting about their daily routine.

"The Tian family came to borrow money from me early this morning! He said that the two boys from his family were short of a few taels of silver when they were hired, but that scared me. How can I get a few taels of silver for her? Don't tell me. No, wouldn’t it be good if I were left to be my Hesheng’s wife?” Ms. Lin said while beating her clothes.

"The Tian family is finally willing to give Changsheng a wife. What's pitiful is that even a cow can still take a breath. Changsheng has never rested since she was able to hold a hoe. Is she such a mother-in-law?"

"Hey, what are you thinking about? How could she be willing to spend money to marry Changsheng? It was Changxi and Changsheng who agreed on the marriage. The two brothers didn't have enough money to betrothal. I don't know when Changsheng will be able to make it. It's all twenty He’s one year old.”

"He's twenty-one. When I married him, he was already seven years old. He was as skinny as a stick, while Changxi and Changshou were white and fat."

"Both are sons, but the Tian family's aunt doesn't want to see the eldest son." The newly married daughter-in-law said curiously, not understanding the twists and turns.

"Changsheng is the child that the couple picked up. It's strange to say that after Changsheng came to the house, Shui Sanmei, who was originally unhappy, had three children in her arms three years later. She gave birth to twin boys first, and there were more children later. I have a girl." The woman explained to her little daughter-in-law who didn't know the origin.

He Shengniang sighed: "From now on, Changsheng has been a thorn in the side of this couple. They dislike Changsheng in every way, and they argue with each other from time to time."

"They don't want to raise a child, so they just give it away. Those couples who can't have children must be rushing to get it, and they don't want to bother with a little baby." The new daughter-in-law disagreed.

"Give it away! They don't have the kindness to do so!"

"They are so cruel! They secretly threw them into the mountains. They threw them twice. The next time Changxi and Changshou fell seriously ill and had no choice but to ask the villagers to help them go to the mountains to retrieve them and raise them again. This time The couple did not say that immortality was a blessing, but instead said that immortality was a disaster. Fortunately, the village chief finally let it go and secretly threw the baby into the mountains. Even if he found it again, he would never give it to the couple to raise, and then they stopped. "

"This is really a sin!" The new daughter-in-law didn't know what to say and sighed.

Liu Yu had also heard about these things, but she didn't know them in detail. Now that she had heard them all, she felt quite uncomfortable.

Tian Changsheng was a little far away from his family, and he was a few years older than him, so they had not had much contact with each other in the past few years.

I still remember that when he was young, he was not liked by others because he had no mother, and he was very strong. When he was young at that time, he was teased by a group of children whose noses were not dry. The fight was heavy-handed, and no one played with him from then on.

What he loved most at that time was counting ants in the vegetable garden behind his home, watching the ants move around and grab food.

Changsheng would sometimes collect firewood or dig bamboo shoots from the mountains, and would give him a handful of wild fruits or sweet grass roots when he met him.

In my memory, he was a thin, handsome boy who spoke very little. When I spoke to him, he would purse his lips and chuckle in embarrassment.

Later, when we grew up, each of them was busy with their own household affairs, fields and bamboo groves, but we saw less of them.

However, he could eventually meet someone from the same village. Liu Yu pulled down his memory and discovered that at some point, Tian Changsheng had changed from a handsome boy to a thin and silent one. He didn’t know when his face was full of A man with a beard.

Tian Changsheng's face was hidden at that end and couldn't be cleaned, and behind the stubble on his face, Liu Yu suspected that even the Tian family members didn't know what he looked like now.

Thinking of Tian Changsheng's deep and calm eyes when he grew up, Liu Yu couldn't help but sigh.

Although such a hard-working and down-to-earth man is a bit slovenly, it would be good if he could be his husband. At least he would be better than those lazy second-rate men in the village.

Liu Yu glanced at Lin, Hesheng's wife, who was gossiping among her friends. Thinking of the shamelessness of the Tian Fugui couple rumored in the village, she knew that it would not be easy for Tian Changsheng to become his son-in-law.

Such a hard-working coolie, who is easier to handle than an ox, is difficult to find even with a lantern, and the Tian family couple may not let him go.

Liu Yu was a man of action, and he had an idea in his mind. The more he thought about it, the more appropriate it became. So he cut the pig grass and silently considered the matter.

In the evening, after dinner, Liu Yu calmly told the old lady that Nian Cuihua had watched Tian Fugui and his wife get married and raise children, so she knew more than He Shengniang.

Liu Yu also knew more clearly that Tian Changsheng's situation in the Tian family was even more miserable than what he heard today.

Just as he was thinking about making a plan with Liu Fusheng and Nian Cuihua to ask Tian Changsheng to become his son-in-law, someone called the door outside the fence courtyard.

"It's your uncle's voice. Go open the door quickly. It must be about your marriage. My grandpa and I have the final say on this matter. Don't interrupt later."

Nian Cuihua frowned and explained to Liu Yu carefully, hoping that he could suppress his temper later.

"Father, mother, whose idea was it for Brother Yu to find someone to marry into his wife? Our second brother is enshrined behind his back. If we go, there will be Liu Yan from my family, Liu Fan and Liu Shan from the third brother's family. What's the matter? If we have to recruit a son-in-law, our family's land and family wealth will be in vain at the expense of outsiders."

Liu Maolin was furious. As soon as he entered the main room, he started to scold the two elders. He looked at Liu Yu with a look of hatred.