The Sweet Little Fulang

Zhang Zhengzi was too young and had no children, so the funeral should not be a big one. Everything was kept simple, but it was not like there were no mourners and weepers.

During the three days of the lingering period, Lu Gu could hear the crying from the Zhang family, and the cries would often be heard when there were many relatives who came. He thought it was because the Zhang family had many relatives, but he only realized after hearing what Wei Lanxiang said. Zhang Zhengzi's disappearance means that after his family died out, some of the family property and fields were stared at by relatives from the same clan, and even old relatives who hadn't seen each other for many years gathered together.

The cemeteries of Qingxi Village are all on the barren hills to the south, with sparse forests and few trees, and the ground is full of raised graves. Usually, few people go there. In the past two or three days, Shen Xuanqing and Shen Yaoqing have followed the village rules and helped dig new ones together with the villagers. The grave has gone.

Because of this, Wei Lanxiang had no one to talk about, and it was not easy to chat with Ji Qiuyue about funeral matters, so he talked to Lu Gu while doing needlework.

"It's okay to have an old Mrs. Zhang, her seniority is high, and she can't let her son be kicked out without his wife." After she finished speaking, she sighed and said, "I'm afraid that there will be those who are cruel, who will divide the land as soon as they are buried. Divide things."

Widows have always been quiet, and those like Li Wanyun who have not given birth to a son are even more likely to be bullied by their relatives. Now the Zhang family's property and land are as if they have no one to inherit, and those relatives who have a bad heart will come to snatch it, even if they don't snatch it for a while. After that, she came to her door every three days to persecute and threaten her. How could she, a woman, bear this kind of crime.

"Those people are black and evil. We women and husbands have lost their men and have worked for the family for more than ten or twenty years. They can't see them. As soon as the men leave, they come to bully the orphans and widows. Instead of throwing karma into the hands of others, it is better to give it to their relatives."

Wei Lanxiang almost gritted her teeth when she mentioned the word "relative", and said angrily with a "bah", "I have been working for more than ten years, not to mention sewing, mending, starching and washing, but weaving cloth and raising chickens and ducks. Selling them can be sold." It's all money, and I didn't eat for free when I got married, so people say that the family business belongs to the Shen family and has nothing to do with me."

Lu Gu saw that her temper was getting better while she was talking, so he quickly scooped hot water from the earthen pot and poured it into her bowl, before putting down the gourd ladle, he gently pushed the bowl over, and whispered: "Mother, Drink some water, don't be angry."

Seeing that he was obedient, Wei Lanxiang responded repeatedly: "Okay, don't be angry."

Once the chatterbox is opened, it is hard to stop. After taking a sip of hot water, she continued: "Guzi, you don't know that when your father left, your brother Daqing married a wife, and there is a family of distant relatives who have never met. Come here, you actually want to take advantage of our house and fields, tell me, what is the reason for this, I gave birth to two sons and did not stop those black-hearted thieves."

"Fortunately, the boss and the second child are both grown up, so they didn't succeed." Wei Lanxiang felt relieved when he said this.

In fact, before she got married, she would not be able to say these words, because all she saw and understood were such things, but after marrying Shen Shunfu, she gradually changed.

Shen Shunfu has never been educated, and he is a rough old man, but he thinks a lot in his head. First of all, he is different from other people in his enthusiasm for treating others well and seeing the sufferings of wives and husbands. Not to mention beating his wife, he never even scolded him. After scolding Wei Lanxiang, even if he is helpless when he encounters that injustice, he will sigh to Wei Lanxiang that it is not easy for girls in the world to be twins.

Under the influence of her ears and eyes, she thought differently from before.

Three days is not long, and soon it will be time to lift and bury it in the soil.

The snow has melted away, and the snow is flowing from the eaves like rain. The snow in the yard and the road outside is also melting, and the ground is muddy.

There was a lot of crying and shouting outside, it was a mess, Lu Gu sat in the room with Ji Qiuyue and didn't go out, even the door was closed.

Here they pay attention to eating lunch before lifting their spirits, and those men who are full of food will also have strength, so today Shen Xuanqing and Shen Yaoqing ate at Zhang’s house, the meal is a vegetarian feast, there are not many dishes in winter, and the more expensive one on the table is tofu. The others are nothing but cabbage and radish, and a wild vegetable, a total of four bowls.

"Sister-in-law, it's all right, you can change it." Lu Gu handed over the embroidered tiger pattern purse.

Lions and tigers ward off evil spirits. Wei Lanxiang felt that the red belt was not enough, so he asked him to sew a purse with a tiger pattern on it. He went to the temple yesterday to ask for an amulet, and he hung it around Ji Qiuyue's neck as soon as he came back.

"It's so beautiful." Ji Qiuyue took it. It happened that her purse was old. It was made of rags and had no embroidery. Now that she had a new purse, her face was full of joy.

They were talking in the room, and after a while, they heard Shen Yaoqing and brothers coming back outside.Unlike the death of an old man, there is no need to cry and beat in the grave today, just bury it.

Wei Lanxiang prepared the brazier early in the morning, and when they saw the two of them came back, she hurriedly brought it to the gate of the courtyard, so that they could only come in after stepping over.

Their family has a fetal star, which is different from other families. People in the village know what's going on when they pass by, and they don't know how to chew their tongues.

Before they finished stepping over the brazier, Wei Lanxiang asked the two sons to wash their hands well, and gave each of them a new red belt to change into. Only after changing it could he see Ji Qiuyue.

In the past few days, Shen Yaoqing didn't sleep with Ji Qiuyue at night because he was digging a new grave, so he set up a wooden bed for him in the main room for a few nights.

Everyone in the village came back, and Zhang's relatives were no exception.

After packing up her two sons, Wei Lanxiang went to Quan Zi's house. Not long after, there was a noise from the next door, and she heard it rising and falling in her heart. Sure enough, as she thought, these people had no good intentions.

Fortunately, Lin Zhongcai was at Zhang's house, with him, even people from other villages had to show face, and dared not search and plunder Zhang's house at will.But even if he is here, Zhang Zhengzi has no heirs, and there is nothing he can do if the relatives of the Zhang family come to divide the family property, such is the way of the world.

In the past few days, old Mrs. Zhang cried so much that she passed out several times. Her only son was gone, and her heart was dug out. In addition, her right leg was broken, and she became much older in just a few days.

At this moment, Li Wanyun was surrounded by many people, who said they wanted to discuss with her how to divide the property and land. She, a weak woman, had never seen such a battle before.

There was a lot of noise in the yard, and it was all forced to this point. The Li family scolded the relatives of the Zhang family for not being human, the widow also bullied, and old Zhang's natal family also came. Shi said.

As soon as they talked about it, the relatives of the Zhang family took the issue of having no descendants. If it fell into the hands of outsiders like his Li family, otherwise he would embezzle the family business privately, and his Li family would not even think about being a human being.

When it was time to bury Zhang Zhengzi, old Zhang passed out and was carried into the room and fell asleep. After the burial, no one thought of her, and she only woke up when she heard the noise.

Although her leg was broken and her expression was sluggish, but when she heard that those people disregarded her life and wanted to divide her house and fields, she felt angry, well, everyone treated her as an old woman The dead man immediately shouted and shouted in the room.

Lin Zhongcai got a headache from this group of people quarreling, and when he heard the old Mrs. Zhang yelling and scolding in the room, he hurriedly got her out.

Lao Zhang's son was gone, and relatives who hadn't seen him for many years threatened him. He was in great pain and cried, but he didn't forgive him. He cursed and cried and howled.

She helped marry the second daughter-in-law of the Zhang family, and she usually talked about it in the village, so even if the second wife of the Zhang family thought that they were closest to the eldest family, she would not dare to come forward to snatch the family property at the moment. Listen at the door and the neighbors, even if the old Zhang's people are not good enough, if they bully such an old widowed wife, they will be stabbed in the back.

Just like what Wei Lanxiang thought, as soon as the old Mrs. Zhang came out, Lin Zhongcai used the word "filial piety" to suppress Zhang's relatives.

Although Zhang Zhengzi and Shen Xuanqing are the same age, old Zhang is almost ten years older than Wei Lanxiang. Her son is gone, and her daughter-in-law will act as a filial piety. In the world, only widows are driven away and their family property is divided. How can there be a lost child? The old lady was kicked out of the house, isn't this a crime?

As for the matter of adoption, Mrs. Zhang doesn't believe anyone at the moment, so naturally she refuses, she cries and scolds, and asks someone to help her beat all the relatives in the yard away, and she even picks up clods of dirt on the ground and throws them over. Spit at those hideous faces.

Her hair was gray and her leg was broken. Sitting there, her hands were covered with mud. Anyone who looked at her felt a little crazy. The Qingxi Villagers who were watching at the door were soft-hearted and sighed pitifully.

Only Mrs. Zhang knew where the house deed and title deed were. She didn't tell her, and no one dared to steal it in broad daylight.

The farce ended for the time being, Wei Lanxiang heard it clearly at Quanzi's house, and sighed in her heart, sitting with Quanzi's wife, she couldn't help lamenting, this little Zhang's life was really too bitter.

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The snow melted and flowed down from the eaves at night, but it was too cold and turned into icicles. Shen Xuanqing, the tallest, didn't even need a bamboo pole. Standing under the eaves, he stretched out his hand and broke the icicles off.

The ice skate is too sharp, if it falls down, it's okay to hurt others, but if it hurts Ji Qiuyue, it will be bad.Since his mother said so, he followed suit, so as not to keep talking about it.

There are quite a lot of ice skates under the eaves, and Lu Gu also came to help when he saw this, but he couldn't reach it even on tiptoe, so he found a wooden stick, as long as he could knock off the pointed end.

"What do you want to eat at night, I'll make it for you." Lu Gu said while knocking on the ice skates. These days, Shen Xuanqing helped Zhang's family and ate there.

Shen Xuanqing laughed when she saw her husband standing beside her, and when asked what she wanted to eat, she smiled even more, and said, "I'll go to Meng Dayue's to buy some meat, and I'll ask my mother to boil meatballs for us to eat in the evening."

In the past few days, he ate an all-vegetarian banquet, without meat, so he couldn't help being a bit gluttonous, because the vegetarian soup at the banquet was well done, it reminded him of meatball soup.

"Okay, I'll chop the scallion and ginger later, and then fry a bowl of radish and fry a few buns." Lu Gu turned his head and saw that he smiled, his eyebrows and eyes were also curved, and his smile was light and sweet.

When Shen Yan heard that the meatballs were about to be boiled, the hand weaving the bamboo basket stopped, and she sat in the main room and called out: "Brother Erqing, really?"

Shen Xuanqing was amused by her greedy look, and said: "Of course it is true, when have I ever tricked you?"

"Then you go and buy it. It takes a lot of time to chop the meat. Brother Guzi and I will knock it out." Shen Yan was very attentive, so he found a long wooden stick and came.

What she said was indeed true, the meatballs are only delicious if they are chopped finely. Shen Xuanqing smiled and tugged at her pigtail, saying that she was so greedy that she didn't know who she looked like.

Shen Yan was often pulled by Shen Yaoqing's pigtails, and now even the second brother bullied her, and suddenly became anxious, so she called Lu Gu to support her: "Brother Guzi, look at him."

If it was Ji Qiuyue and Shen Yaoqing, Ji Qiuyue would have slapped him to the back of the head, but Lu Gu didn't have the courage, and Shen Xuanqing was much taller than him, so he didn't dare to reach out to slap him.

Because of Shen Yan's words, he subconsciously looked at Shen Xuanqing, and before he could speak, he saw the tall man shyly withdrawing his hand, scratching his head and feeling a little embarrassed, as if he was afraid that he would call him, and hurried out when he said he was going to buy meat.