My little cutie [farming]

"You are so old that you still don't know how to help with work, do you think you are a rich young master!"

As soon as Shi Changpu pushed open the gate, there was a burst of cursing in the yard.Sister-in-law Yang Chunhua took a broom and smacked Dazhu's buttocks, cursing while looking in the direction of the door.

"Wow, woo woo woo mother, I just cut pigweed, let me go, let me go!" Da Zhuzi screamed and threw off Yang Chunhua's arm, and ran towards the backyard clutching his butt/butt.

The seven-year-old boy gave Shi Changpu a vicious look while running.

Shi Changpu pursed his lips, lowered his eyes, slowly turned around, closed the door and walked towards the courtyard.But even if he lowered his head and said nothing, he couldn't escape the non-stop ridicule.

"Hey, sister-in-law see what you said. Dazhu doesn't have to be a rich young master, he doesn't have to work if he's a fool!" Second sister-in-law Li Zaozi sat under the courtyard wall, basking in the last bit of sunshine while knocking on her house. The sun-dried pumpkin seeds smiled.

The sharp voice was no longer full of sarcasm, it was filled with hatred.

Shi Changpu's footsteps slowed down a bit, but he still didn't stop in the end. He walked slowly to the small compartment in the innermost corner of the yard and closed the door.

But the closed door could not shut off the sharp voices of the two women in the yard who continued to mock.

The third sister-in-law Yang Shufen was cooking today, and the silent woman still didn't speak, but the way of acting as if Shi Changpu didn't exist might not make Shi Changpu feel much better.

"A fool is amazing, a fool can eat without doing any work!" With a 'bang', the door was slapped hard.

Shi Changpu waited for the sister-in-law to leave cursing, and then slowly walked over to open the door. "I won't eat today." In front of these people, Shi Changpu didn't make too many changes, and still said the words that his sister-in-law and the others were waiting for.

Sure enough, after he finished speaking, the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law over there snorted mockingly at the same time, but didn't say anything more.Shi Changpu slowly closed the door, and then slowly sat back on the only chair in the room.

The chair had a broken leg before, and I tied it up with a rope and a wooden stick I found with difficulty. If it is leaning against the wall, it can still sit on people.

Shi Changpu rubbed his stomach slowly and vigorously, as if he could suppress the feeling of hunger in his stomach as long as he used enough strength.

To be honest, Shi Changpu really doesn't blame the elder sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law and the third sister-in-law for being like this. After all, he is indeed eating and drinking for free at home.

The head of the Shi family is Shi Changpu's father, Shi Zhiyi, who is 45 years old.In their place, 45 is already considered an older person.My mother, Zhang Huiniang, is also 44, and her health is still not very good.

Shi Changpu felt that her mother's poor health had a lot to do with having too many children.But in their place, people think that having more children means more blessings, and that Zhang Huiniang is a blessed person.

If there is no young son fool Shi Changpu.

Shi Zhiyi and Zhang Huiniang had a total of five children, all boys.Although Shi Changpu is a little brother, he can still marry a wife. If the family situation is good, he can be raised as a boy.

Of the five boys, Shi Zhiyi and Zhang Huiniang used to walk in the village with straight sticks, and no one would say envy.

But as the youngest son is a 'stupid', other children grow up slowly, and parents are gradually aging, many things can be changed without envy.

The 27-year-old eldest brother Shi Datian got married eight years ago, married his wife Yang Chunhua, and gave birth to a son Dazhu.In the second year when Dazhu was born, his second brother Shi Erjiang, who is 25 this year, also married his wife, Li Zaozi.

The second sister-in-law did not conceive in the same year, she only conceived in the next year, and gave birth to a daughter Da Ya in the third year.The 20-year-old third brother Shi Sanhe got married when he was young, and it has been two years now.

It's not that the third sister-in-law can't have children, but the family members have "discussed" and temporarily don't want children.Just like the second sister-in-law, after giving birth to a daughter, she will take it easy and stop having a son for the time being.

Shi Sihai is nineteen years old this year and is still studying in a private school in the town.I have been studying for nine years, and I am admitted to Tongsheng, and I am waiting to be admitted to Xiucai Guangyaomen.Shi Sihai has also started discussing relatives, talking about the eldest daughter of Wang Xiucai, an old scholar in the town.

What the matchmaker hinted at was that if it can be done, it is best to get married within this year and next.After all, Xianglian, the eldest daughter of Wang Xiucai's family, is seventeen this year, so she can be regarded as a big girl.

Things happened one after another, and one after another, the Shi family was regarded as a "big family" in the eyes of others, and the family was full of children and grandchildren.

But only the Shi family knew that the situation at home became more and more difficult with the increase of population.

In Yong'an Village, marrying the daughter of a good family costs at least 20 taels of silver.This is just the most basic bride price, like buying new property, banquets, a lot of things are money.The boss, the second, and the third are one after another, and more than 100 taels of silver are gone.

The fourth brother still needs to be called Shuxiu every year, plus the activities of the private school and the etiquette for the master, it also costs ten taels of silver a year as a base.

The Shi family has [-] acres of fertile land. Before the brothers grew up, the [-] acres of fertile land had no problem supporting five children and a couple, and there was still some surplus.

But after paying the exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes every year, it is just enough to eat.

So when the children are grown up, the family's money will naturally not be enough.The sister-in-law wants to have an extra room as the pillar grows, but the family has no money to build it and can only continue to live in the room of the couple.

The second sister-in-law wants to have a son, but the family situation does not allow her to be unable to give birth temporarily, and she is afraid that she will not be able to have one in the future.The third sister-in-law understands better, she doesn't even have a daughter now.

Then there is the fourth brother... It is impossible for the daughter of the scholar's family to marry and squeeze into a narrow single bed with him.

Shi Changpu looked up at the wall in front of him, he used to live in the same room with his fourth brother.After all, the fourth brother spent most of his time at the private school and only came back to sleep at night, but as the fourth brother began to talk about marriage, the house had to be separated from the original house.The bigger one next door is reserved for the fourth brother, but no matter how big it is, how big is the space separated by a room.

The family has no money, and Shichangpu is seventeen.

17 years old, ready to get married.

What does it mean to be married, it means that there is less and less space in the family, and it means another big expense.

Shi Changpu sighed and rubbed his legs. He was not idle when the man at home went to work in the field in the morning.Filled all the three large water tanks in the house with water, and chopped firewood for another day.

Cleaned the courtyard and fed the pigs and chickens in the backyard.When it was almost time to eat at noon, I left the house with a cold steamed bun. The women in the family didn't live much.So the way Shichangpu can make the women at home a little more comfortable in the afternoon is not to appear in front of them.

Night fell slowly while he was silent, and the sound of a man from the Shi family coming back from the yard could be heard.Zhang Huiniang, who stayed in the house and didn't come out, also collected them, and soon the family went to the main house for dinner.

The yard of the Shi family is still very large, with a length of 100 meters from front to back.The width is also more than 50 meters. Originally, a main house and a granary were built, and two rooms were built on the left and right sides. The five brothers squeezed into the two rooms when they were young.

There is also a kitchen on the far left side. Outside the kitchen, a simple firewood room was randomly built with branches and trunks, and the firewood picked up and chopped by Shichangpu is piled up on weekdays.

There are still some places in the backyard. Shi Changpu is responsible for raising a pig and ten chickens. Shi Changpu is responsible for feeding the chickens and cleaning the chicken coop, but Zhang Huiniang is responsible for collecting eggs.

Zhang Huiniang has a beginning and an end, and she never liked Shichangpu very much since she was a child.Thinking about it, she has no shortage of sons, let alone Shi Changpu is not a real son.

As for daughters, few people really like their daughters these days.

Shi Changpu was constantly thinking about things that he didn't have, and the family probably spent about a quarter of an hour eating in the main room.As the eldest son and grandson of the family, Dazhu is the only third-generation male, and he can still hear his screams against his mother from time to time.

Da Ya is similar to himself, they are all transparent members of the family.But Da Ya at least has a father who remembers her, and she can still eat two meals a day.

Shi Changpu rubbed his stomach again, and picked up a small jar from the ground in the corner.He tilted his head up and drank more than half of the clear water in the small jar, and his stomach finally didn't hurt so much.

The fourth brother hasn't eaten at home for a long time. To be precise, since he and Wang Xiucai started discussing marriage, he rarely lives at home.It wasn't something that barked the door backwards. Although he didn't say anything, every time he came back, the face he pulled was silently forcing the family to quickly fix the wedding room for him.

Shi Changpu was pinching the sleeves of the cotton-padded jacket on his body. These were the clothes that the fourth brother gave him after he changed them four years ago.The books that I can memorize are all taught by my former fourth brother.

Fourth brother, he is very nice.

"Father, mother, I'm back."

As soon as he thought of Shi Sihai, the fourth brother's voice came from the gate.Shi Changpu didn't show much excitement, instead he looked up at the narrow door and was stunned for a moment.

After taking a light, thin breath, he slowly stood up.When they walked over to open the door, the rest of the Shi family also came out of the house.

Parents, mother and three elder brothers were talking in the main room before, and the three sister-in-laws were all busy in the kitchen.Da Ya was driven back to her room by her mother, and now she showed her face at the door and called Fourth Uncle and went back again.

Shi Changpu also stood at the door, looking at Shi Sihai who entered the door with no expression on his face. "Fourth brother."

It's just two words, and it's not to the extent that if you say it, you will stumble.

Shi Sihai frowned, and glanced at Shi Changpu impatiently.A soft word 'ah', if you don't pay attention, you won't even be able to hear it.

Shi Sihai was wearing a white scholar's long gown, lifted the hem of his clothes and walked quickly towards the main room.

Shi Changpu stood at the door in a daze for a while, but in the eyes of the rest of the Shi family, this was nothing more than a normal thing.Shi Sihai came back, almost to talk about something.

Shi Changpu walked slowly towards the main room, feeling a little heavy in his heart.