Lucky husband

Bai Xiuhe, who was busy in the kitchen, heard Old Madam Li's voice, and poked her head out: "Mom, what's wrong?"

She was lighting a fire and frying vegetables in the stove house, but she didn't hear the movement outside clearly, she just thought that the children were playing around, and now she had time to ask after cooking a dish.

"What's the matter, what are you doing as an uncle, you have a head of Yumu, you don't have a brain!" Someone bumped into the muzzle of a gun, and Old Madam Li slapped her unceremoniously.

Bai Xiuhe was scolded in a few words without pain or itching. She sharply saw the pheasant lying in the yard pretending to be dead, and the two children carrying two baskets full of eggs. "Mom! Pheasant, and eggs!"

"The old lady is not blind, she can see, so you don't need to remind me." Seeing her like that, Old Madam Li lost all thought of scolding her, and scolding her was just a waste of saliva.

"Hey, Brother Jin and Girl Xia brought them back? You two little guys are amazing. These are probably the first batch of eggs laid by pheasants in spring, and you all found them." Bai Xiuhe walked out of the kitchen. , Lifting two unlovely pheasants with tied wings, "Look at these two chickens, they are fat and tender, whether they are stewed or raw, they must taste good."

"My egg! My chicken! None of you are allowed to take it." Seeing the chicken being picked up by the uncle, Li Ming ran to Bai Xiuhe's side and stared at her dissatisfied.

"What's yours? This is what your brother and sister found back from the mountain. What does it have to do with you?" Bai Xiuhe held two chickens and looked at Mrs. Li, "Mom, our family kept these two chickens for us to eat." Or take it and sell it?"

"Eat one for yourself, and sell the other. It's too late today to kill the chicken, so you can kill the stew tomorrow morning." Mrs. Li originally planned to sell both, but thinking that the family hadn't eaten chicken for a long time, this Bai De's chicken will take out one for everyone to mend.

After finishing speaking, she looked at Qian Xinghua who came out of the right room out of the corner of her eye, and continued to arrange without changing her face: "The money for selling the chickens belongs to Grandpa, and the two baskets of eggs are kept by Qian and Jiang. You want to eat by yourself." Or take it out and sell it, I don’t care.”

"Mother, what's going on?" Qian Xinghua pretended to be confused, "Where did the chickens and eggs come from at home?"

Just now she was tired of cursing and fell asleep, and only woke up when she heard Mrs. Li's scolding in a daze. She hid in the house and understood what happened. Two of them were broken, and my heart was bleeding with pain.

How could Old Madam Qian not understand her little thoughts and ignore her at all.

Bai Xiuhe, who was still carrying the chicken to the backyard, turned around and said, "Second brother and sister, the chicken and the eggs were brought back from the back mountain by Xia Yatou and Brother Jin. Mother said that she would kill a chicken tomorrow to make up for the family. The other Tijiao was sold, and your family and the third brother’s family will keep the eggs themselves.”

After speaking, she went to the backyard.

Old Madam Li scolded her back: "You are the only one who can talk a lot, you know everything!"

It looked like she was scolding Bai Xiuhe, but in fact, Old Madam Li was scolding Qian Xinghua. From the way she stared at the pheasant and eggs, one could tell that she must be thinking wrong at the moment.

"Mother, did the two of them really bring the chicken and eggs back?" Qian Xinghua asked, licking her face.

"It's not them, it's you?" Mrs. Li asked back.

"Hehe, mother, I'm raising a baby at home, and I haven't left the house yet." Qian Xinghua laughed dryly, and continued under the pressure of Old Madam Li, "Since the chicken was brought back by the two of them, shouldn't they all be together?" Give it to us and the third brother?"

Old lady Li turned her head to look at Qian Xinghua, her expression changed slightly, but she didn't speak, she didn't look angry.

Not being scolded, Qian Xinghua felt that there should be some drama, and licked her lower lip to embolden herself: "Mom, you said before that you only need to hand over half of the money the family makes from going out to the grandfather, so the two of them went out to find something to eat." Is it enough to hand in half to the grandfather when I come back?"

A fat and tender pheasant must weigh at least six catties, and a catty of chicken is seven renminbi, and a chicken can be sold for about forty renminbi, plus twenty or so eggs, that is sixty renminbi, which is comparable to that of a strong man. Doing a day's work outside!

For these sixty coins, Qian Xinghua couldn't care less about anything, she couldn't let the money fall into other people's pockets!

After hearing what Qian Xinghua said, not only did Old Madam Li not scold her, but a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, her eyes seemed to be encouraging Qian Xinghua to say a few more words, to see if she could impress her.

"Mother, you also know the situation of Brother Li and me. We have had a hard time for two days. Unlike the third brother and the others, the third brother works in the county government, and the third younger brother and sister have a hand in embroidery. The two of them want to earn some money easily. , I think it’s better to kill the chicken brought back by Brother Jin and give it to the family to eat, and give the eggs to the family. As for the ones from my girl Xia, I will ask Brother Li to sell the chicken tomorrow, and the eggs to Brother Li and You will make up your body tomorrow, what do you think?"

Qian Xinghua was still a little guilty at the beginning, but after she said it, she felt more and more that what she said was right. Their family's life was worse than that of the third brother's family. She thought about the man and son in the family, and her mother-in-law would definitely not Find fault with her.

"I think the life of the second child is really hard." Mrs. Li said something wrong, "Second child, do you think the same as your mother-in-law?"

It turned out that when Qian Xinghua said these words with a choked voice, old man Li happened to bring Li Chengzhi and Li Chengli back from the outside, and heard her words verbatim.

"Mother, my son's life is very good, not bad at all." Li Chengli stepped into the door and stood in front of Mrs. Li with downcast eyes.

"Old man, do you think that I, as a mother-in-law, did not do the right thing? Isn't it too kind to hand over half of the money to Grandpa after doing the work?" Old lady Li didn't even look at him, and stepped forward to help old man Li take it. The hoe was placed under the eaves, "Who's mother-in-law allows the daughter-in-law to have private property in her hands, it is really inappropriate to say it."

"You can change it if you think it's inappropriate." After saying this, old man Li changed his shoes and went into the house. He never interfered in the family affairs, and his old wife took care of the house very well.