Dressed as the uncle of farming culture

Fourth Sister Xiao's cry woke up Aunt Xiao who was sleeping more soundly.

She didn't even bother to put on her shoes, so she rushed out, shouting as she ran, "Sister Si! What's wrong with you, Sister Si?"

Seeing her in a hurry, Brother Xiao quickly stepped forward and hugged her, "Why don't you wear shoes?"

Although it was no longer winter, it was still very cold with bare feet on the ground at night.

"W-what's the matter?"

Seeing Fourth Sister Xiao rushing into her room while crying, Mrs. Xiao immediately looked at Xiao Le and Second Brother Xiao. She said that she wanted to wait for the two to come back, but she didn't want to be sleepy these days and fell asleep again.

"It's okay," Xiao Le grinned. "The fourth younger sister said that she was blown out of the courtyard by the wind. I pointed out that she is tall. She didn't seem to believe it, so she cried."

Mrs. Xiao: ...It's fine.

"Put me down quickly," Mrs. Xiao said shyly as she hammered Brother Xiao's shoulder.

"You guys go back to your room too," Big Brother Xiao smiled at her, and carried her into the room without looking back.

"understood."

Brother Xiao and Xiao Le said in unison.

"Second brother, I'll close the door."

Seeing that Second Brother Xiao still looked sullen, Xiao Le ran to close the courtyard door, and then stepped forward to take Second Brother Xiao back to his room to rest.

On the bed, Second Brother Xiao couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning. On the other hand, within a quarter of an hour after going to bed, Xiao Le was already breathing evenly, and even snored a little from time to time, which showed that he slept soundly.

Brother Xiao couldn't help but sit up, and wanted to pick up the pillow and throw it on Xiao Le's bed to wake him up.

But when his hand touched the pillow, he hesitated again. In the end, he could only lie down again, and after scolding Li Xiucai a thousand or eight hundred times, he fell asleep.

The next morning, Fourth Younger Sister Xiao prepared the meal with red and swollen eyes, not letting Mrs. Xiao touch her hands at all.

"Sister-in-law, I need to move more."

Aunt Xiao asked, but she just replied.

"What the third brother said was just a joke, don't worry about it."

Aunt Xiao immediately understood what she meant and explained softly.

But Fourth Sister Xiao knew that Xiao Le's tone last night was definitely not a joke, and after she went back to the house, she took out the clothes from the previous few years and really couldn't fit them.

Simei Xiao, who had hardly slept all night, made a decision after waking up: she wanted to lose weight.

There was a little sister in the same village. Before the engagement, she was so fat that her face was swollen, but after the engagement, she began to lose weight crazily. Although she was not so thin when she got married, she was well-proportioned, her face was like a peach blossom, and she was very beautiful.

Thinking of the way the other party said to lose weight, Xiao Simei decided to give it a try.

"Fourth sister, do you only eat this little?"

When eating breakfast, Xiao Le glanced at Simei Xiao's bowl full of rice soup.

"Ah."

Fourth Sister Xiao didn't want to talk to him at first, but she was afraid that he would talk nonsense, so she responded casually.

But she didn't expect Second Brother Xiao to come over, "Fourth Sister, why do you feel that your face is rounder?"

Fourth Sister Xiao put down her chopsticks in horror, raised her hand to touch her face, "Really? Really?"

Second Brother Xiao nodded, and now Fourth Sister Xiao's eyes turned red, and she was about to cry again.

Although I don't know why Simei Xiao Xiao lied late, Brother Xiao also saw that Xiao Le and Second Brother Xiao deliberately teased Simei Xiao.

Seeing that everyone was about to cry, he reached out and knocked on the table, "What are you talking about? The fourth sister is still young, and it's time to grow flesh."

long meat...

Fourth Sister Xiao covered her face and rushed back to the room.

Xiao Le and Second Brother Xiao glanced at each other, and said to Brother Xiao who was stunned, "Brother, you made Fourth Sister cry."

"Yeah, look, I didn't eat any food."

Sister-in-law Xiao sighed, got up and took Xiao Simei's bowl, and brought her some favorite dishes with chopsticks, "I'll go to the room to see her."

"Did I say something wrong?"

Brother Xiao frowned, what did he say wrong just now?

Xiao Le and Brother Xiao buried their heads in eating.

Not long after, Mrs. Xiao came back with an empty bowl. Seeing that the contents of the bowl had been eaten clean, Brother Xiao laughed again.

"It's good to eat. Fourth sister, I don't remember the hard times before. I remember that one year, there was a sweet potato at home. We brothers and sisters ate it together. Each bite was gone, but it took a day..."

Brother Xiao couldn't stop talking, but Xiao Le and Second Brother Xiao's eyes turned red.

At this time, Brother Xiao hated Li Xiucai even more.

So when he met Li Xiucai's cousin at Wen's house, he purposely rubbed against that person, "I haven't seen Li Xiucai for a long time, did you go to the academy?"

Cousin Li was stunned for a moment, wiped the mud off his hands, and said with a smile, "I haven't been going to the academy for a long time. Shu Xiu, who earns more than ten taels of silver a year, really can't bear it. He's studying at home."

"yes."

Brother Xiao gritted his teeth secretly, looked left and right, and asked in a low voice when he didn't find anyone looking at them.

"I said that you are not young anymore, why haven't you discussed marriage? You know the situation of my family. First, I am not in a hurry. Second, my family has many brothers and sisters, so you are different..."

When he opened his mouth, Cousin Li sighed, "Although your family has many brothers and sisters, my grandma insisted on separating us before she was alive, for fear of hurting their house..."

It would be polite to say that they are involved, but it is right to be afraid that they will be exposed.

Because cousin Li's father was born by his ex-mother, and Li Xiucai and his wife were born by his stepmother.

What's more, cousin Li and the others got an old house, and they didn't have any money, so they used it to support Li Xiucai, but the scholar got his fame, but they were separated.

Cousin Li's family can be said to be poorer than Xiao Le's family.

"Why is your face so ugly?"

In the evening, when Cousin Li came home, his mother was about to greet him for dinner, when she saw that his expression was not very good.

"Mother, let's forget about the third aunt and the others who came to borrow money. I'm not married yet. Besides, the family has been separated for so many years. They borrow a few hundred cash a year, and a couple of coins that year. Pay it back again?"

Cousin Li's words stunned his parents.

"But, but your cousin is a scholar, we have to rely on him..."

"Did you hold on?"

Cousin Li pursed his lips, "He is already a scholar, but can we rely on it? Grandma separated us out because she thought that our land would not be recorded under the name of a scholar, and the taxes and rations that should be paid should be paid. "

Parents were pale.

Cousin Li gritted his teeth, "It's unreliable left and right, it's better to save more money, my two younger brothers and I got married earlier, it's better for the family."

So when they had dinner and Li Xiucai's father came to borrow money again, cousin Li's family not only refused to borrow money, but also hoped that they would return the few taels of silver they had borrowed before, saying that they wanted to marry cousin Li.

Li Xiucai was very annoyed when he learned of this, "What do they mean? I am a scholar! The youngest scholar in the village! We are all a family, and this is too ugly!"

"If your grandma was here, they would never dare to do this," his mother was also very angry.

Only Mrs. Li lowered her head and went about her own business without interjecting a word.

In fact, in her opinion, the second uncle's family is already very authentic.

Before she got married, she knew that Grandma Li was partial to her own children, and the daughter and son born to her ex-mother had a very difficult life under her care, and Li Xiucai, who could study, was the only thing she cared about.

What made Mrs. Li even more unbelievable was that after her man became a scholar, in order to prevent the second uncle's family from having a good life, Grandma Li gave him a reason and separated him.

This is to die without wanting them to live well.

The second brother Xiao who has done a "good thing" eats deliciously at night, and the fourth sister Xiao, except for what she ate in the morning, refrained from eating at noon, and she didn't want to eat this evening.

At the end of the day, I don't let myself rest, I have to cook and do housework, and I have to embroider handkerchiefs, and I didn't sleep last night, my skin has deteriorated a lot.

Xiao Le didn't intend to let her go, "Fourth sister, why are you so haggard? Look at this skin, tsk tsk."

Second brother Xiao also looked over with dignity, "Don't tell me, fourth sister, you are not as tender as third child."

These words hit Xiao Simei hard enough.

She covered her face and looked at Xiao Le, only to find that Second Brother Xiao was right!

Isn't Xiao Le's face pale and tender?Looking at the other party's hands, they are also slender and beautiful!

"Wow……"

She went back to the room crying again.

Seeing this, Mrs. Xiao glared at them, "Why do you say that?"

Brother Xiao also wanted to say a few words about them, but when he saw the two younger brothers sitting together, the contrast suddenly became sharper, not because of their appearance, but because of their skin color.

Xiao Le is white and tender, while Brother Xiao is swarthy.

"Third..."

Brother Xiao came over, "Why are you so white?"

"Looks like a mother," Second Brother Xiao pursed his lips, "Mother is very fair and tender, no matter how sun-tanned, she won't get dark."

"That's true," Mrs. Xiao nodded, "but my father is very dark. Except for the third and fourth younger sisters, you two brothers look very much like my father."

Her natal family is in the same village, so she naturally knows what her parents-in-law looked like when they were there.

"Fourth sister can't do it," Xiao Le waved his hands in disgust, "She has an average complexion, how can she compare with mother."

"You want to say how can I compare with you?"

Brother Xiao could see through his thoughts at a glance.

Xiao Le smiled and helped clean up the dishes.

But Mrs. Xiao was still worried about Fourth Sister Xiao, so she brought her something to eat.

"Sister-in-law, is my skin really bad?"

Xiao Simei asked her eagerly while holding her eyes.

Aunt Xiao originally wanted to say that it was not bad at all, but Simei Xiao's next sentence made her change her mind.

I only heard Fourth Sister Xiao say, "If I'm not as good as Third Brother, then I don't want to go out for the rest of my life!"

Without going out, Li Xiucai would naturally not be able to meet her.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Xiao held her face seriously and looked at it, "Don't say it, fourth sister, you are really haggard recently, did you not sleep well at night?"

"It's not good," Xiao Simei covered her cheeks in shock and fear, "Sister-in-law, what should I do!"

If she becomes ugly, will Ming Lang despise him?

Fourth Sister Xiao burst into tears.

They're all from here, Mrs. Xiao didn't know what she was thinking, so she sighed, "It's all over just because of poor skin, I'm afraid..."

"What are you afraid of? Sister-in-law, tell me!"

Fourth Sister Xiao asked.

"Do you still remember last year, when we went to the town to go to the fair, we met a girl who ran out of the hospital? You were terrified at the time."

Aunt Xiao looked at her and asked.

Fourth Sister Xiao immediately remembered, her eyes widened, "You, you mean that girl with red bumps on her face!" "Yeah, I'm afraid you have that kind of thing," Mrs. Xiao touched her Feeling her trembling all over her head, Mrs. Xiao sighed, "It can't be cured, so you should rest at home recently, and the most important thing is to restore your face."

"I raise it! I raise it!"

But how to maintain this skin?

Fourth Sister Xiao cried in her dreams all night.

When I woke up, the pillow was wet, and when I touched my eyes, they were very swollen.

Only the sister-in-law has a bronze mirror in the house, and that was bought by brother Xiao for sister-in-law Xiao.

Fourth Sister Xiao waited for Brother Xiao to get up and fetch water, and hurriedly knocked on the door of their room.

"Who?"

Asked Mrs. Xiao, who had just dressed and was combing her hair.

"Sister-in-law, it's me."

Xiao Simei's voice came from outside the door.

Mrs. Xiao hurriedly opened the door, and Fourth Sister Xiao rushed to the bronze mirror immediately. After seeing her appearance clearly, she broke down and cried.

Xiao Le, who was frightened by Xiao Simei's crying just after waking up, shivered, "What's wrong?"

Second brother Xiao already understood why he kept talking about fourth sister's badness, so he followed up with him last night.

"Could it be that we are talking too much?"

"pass?"

Xiao Le looked at Second Brother Xiao, "It's too light to say, only if you hit her badly, she won't dare to meet her lover!"

"Makes sense!"

Second Brother Xiao agreed, "But after the matter of Li Xiucai is over, we should praise her more, otherwise we will be overwhelmed."

"Don't worry," Xiao Le yawned, "When the time comes, we'll just say that the fourth sister and daughter don't change at eighteen."

"It makes sense, it makes sense," Second Brother Xiao felt more and more that the idea was good the more he heard it. He put his arms around Xiao Le's shoulders and smiled maliciously.

"Old third."

"Second brother, tell me."

"Teach me to throw stones, I'll only hit Li Xiucai!"