The husband's son-in-law

Brother Xing circled around the stove curiously.

After getting the stove back, Li Da conveniently made a few lower wooden stools.There are piles of wood in the firewood room at home, and there are also wood chips. This thing is easy to make, and three stools are knocked on in two or three times.Li Zhouzhou was busy in the morning, and was just saying that he would look for clothes that he couldn't wear in the afternoon, cut off the good parts, put together the cloth ends, and wrap a layer on the wooden stool.

"What is this? I know it's a stove, but I didn't see it like this." Brother Xing asked Li Zhouzhou who entered the main room.

Li Zhouzhou was holding a rough porcelain bowl with melon seeds and peanuts in it, and it was for Brother Xing.He put the rough porcelain bowl on the long stool and said, "Sit and talk." He drew the wooden stool and sat down.

Brother Xing followed suit and sat down, with his legs close to the stove, "It's warm."

"It was my husband's idea. The stove for decocting medicine has been made bigger, so that water can be boiled for cooking to keep warm, and it won't be cold in the main room." Li Zhouzhou handed over a bowl for Brother Xing to eat melon seeds.

Brother Xing was not too polite, he grabbed a handful and knocked on it, just saw the stove was good, when he heard that it was a medicine stove, he moved his legs a little further away, and said, "Yao stove, wouldn't it be bad luck to keep this thing at home?"

"It's no longer a medicine stove if it's made bigger and doesn't boil the medicine." Li Zhouzhou rarely refuted.This stove was Xianggong's idea, and he thought it was very good.

Brother Xing spit out melon seeds into his hands and said: "I found out that once you got married, anyone who said that your husband-in-law is not good will be anxious to me. No, I didn't say that your husband-in-law is not good. I know you guys The husband and wife are in love, so I won't talk about it."

Li Zhouzhou hummed, and started to do the work in hand.

The clothes in his hand were worn by him when he was 15 or [-] years old. Later, the seams were repaired, some other clothes were added to the trouser legs, and the sleeves were also lengthened. It can be broken.

It's all like this, the clothes are not lost, they are all put away.Li Zhouzhou pondered for a while, measured the surface of the stool with his fingers, and gestured for the clothes, planning to sew a double layer, so that it would be strong.

With the sound of scissors cutting cloth, Li Zhouzhou started to work, knowing that Brother Xing would talk without him asking.

Brother Xing got used to it, eating melon seeds and watching Li Zhouzhou work, and said, "It's not about the last time we went to the town, I said we were going to the town, and I asked my sister-in-law to help me for a day, but the sister-in-law hasn't said anything yet." , my mother-in-law first said that it’s still early before the New Year’s Eve, and it’s not too late to go when it’s the end of the year. We have everything at home, and what do we need to spend money on…”

"There is everything in the house. When Yuan Yuan eats caramel, he depends on his grandma's face, and when he eats, he depends on his mother-in-law's mood. She wants to eat salty food and put a pinch of salt. Sometimes I eat it without taste, so I add salt." I have to ask my mother-in-law."

In the Wang family’s big house, Xingge’s mother-in-law is the housekeeper. The kitchen cabinet is locked, and the salt, caramel, eggs, and lard jars are all put inside. Before cooking every day, Xing’s mother-in-law takes the key to open the cabinet. lock up.

The days passed very finely.

Li Zhouzhou heard from Xing Geer.

"Your mother-in-law is saving a little bit of life, and she doesn't show mercy, but she's fine in her heart." Li Zhouzhou finished cutting his hair and began to thread needles.

Brother Xing first asked where to throw the slapped melon seeds.Li Zhouzhou likes to be clean, and Brother Xing is not a sloppy person. He eats casually at his own house, and when he visits other people's houses, he will not intentionally ruin other people's houses with bad intentions.

"Throw it in the stove." Li Zhouzhou said.

Brother Xing still thought it was fun, so he slapped it in, watched the firewood burnt away, grabbed the melon seeds again, and licked, "What did I just say? Oh, yes, let's see who I compare with, but I can talk about it all day long." Talking about me, hey, my head is going to grow big, my sister-in-law has a doughy temper, and my mother-in-law has nothing to say, so I can only bear it, otherwise it will appear that I am not good."

The Wang family didn't live in a separate house, and Xing's mother-in-law would give the two brothers the food they sold throughout the year and the money they earned from selling pigs. Fifty guan per house was considered a year's pocket money.On weekdays, if the chickens and ducks raised by each house and the eggs they save are sold for money, the mother-in-law will not want it.

One family eats food all year round, and these expenses are paid by the public housing.If you want to eat better, you can start a small stove, do something in private, and don't move the oil and salt of the public housing. Xingge's mother-in-law will only say a few words of greedy, knowing that eating well, but they will not interfere.

There are always bumps and bumps in life in a big house, but it is generally successful.

Brother Xing also knows it in his heart, but he knows it. He is annoyed by his mother-in-law saying that this is not good and that is not good. I stuffed my sister-in-law with maltose in front of her face, eating sugared eggs every day!"

"My mother-in-law talked about me again, saying that I wasted my son's hard-earned money lavishly. Didn't I raise chickens and ducks with my sister-in-law? On weekdays, I also work hard to cut pig grass and fetch water. I am not lazy. She just watched I am not pleasing to the eye is a brother..."

Brother Xing threw the melon seeds into the stove and said, "What's wrong, brother, his son just likes me as a brother."

"Forget it, let me tell you, didn't it snow in the second half of the night? When I got up the next day, my sister-in-law said that I was lucky to have gone early yesterday, otherwise the snow would not delay ten days after it cleared up. "

Brother Xing and his sister-in-law couldn't get along, and felt that the sister-in-law was too soft-tempered. She was always ordered by her mother-in-law and never talked back. It was rare to hear her sister-in-law help him, and she was quite happy.

"You traded caramel for it." Li Zhouzhou said.Cannibals have a short mouth, so Yuan Yuan drank an extra sip of soup with sugar water eggs, which was for eating his grandma's milk from the big house stove. Brother Xing was angry with his mother-in-law but gave his sister-in-law a few pieces of caramel, which can cook a big pot of sweet water.

"How much did you give?"

Xing Geer: ...

"I can't save my face, and I also want to anger my mother-in-law. I only gave four yuan to my sister-in-law's two children." Brother Xing's voice became smaller and smaller, "It's not worth much."

Li Zhouzhou knew it right away, put down the things in his hands, put the water on the stove to boil, put the handles on both sides of the pot with a rag, pick it up and pour hot water into the large kettle on the table, half of it is enough.

After drinking it, add it again, it is still hot.

It's still early, I'll cook bone broth later.Li Zhouzhou brought down the hot water pot and put it aside so as not to block the feet of the two of them. The fire in the stove was a bit lower, but it didn't matter for them to keep warm and talk, as long as there was some heat, it was enough.

Holding the kettle, he poured a bowl of hot water for Brother Xing.

Brother Xing ate melon seeds and talked again, his mouth was parched, and when he saw the hot water, he stretched out his hand to take the bowl with a smile, and when he saw it, "Isn't it white water? It's sweet." He smelled it.

"Did you soak dates?"

"I also put half a piece of caramel. My husband likes to eat this." Li Zhouzhou poured two bowls for the two of them, and took the rest to the back room with the pot, to the husband.

Brother Xing held the bowl and muttered, how big a man likes to eat sweets like a child, but he didn't dare to say this, he blew on it, took a sip, his eyes narrowed, it was delicious.

Sweet jujube flavored water.

The pot is down, and the heat is more sufficient.Brother Xing is eating melon seeds and drinking sweet jujube water. Sitting here is also warm. At first, I heard that it was a medicine stove that should be avoided, but now it is gone.

"Zhou Zhou, your stove is really good." Brother Xing finished speaking, and then added with a smile, "Your husband is so smart."

Li Zhouzhou smiled slightly and said, "I'm looking for Mason Zhu in Shili Village. We made two stoves and two pots for sixty renminbi." It didn't say that Mason Zhu was ten renminbi cheaper because he used his family's first.

"What about the other one?" Xingge'er's eyes lit up, "I bought it with money, and it's not in vain to take advantage of you."

Li Zhouzhou shook his head, "Not for sale. My father will get the other one the day after tomorrow, and I will put it in the back room when I come back. It will be warmer for my husband to read and write."

"Alright then." Brother Xing knew whether he would come or not when he heard Li Zhouzhou's message to him as Minister.

The two had a conversation. It was the first time that Brother Xing came to chat with him and it was warm even if he didn't go to the kang. If he went to someone he didn't know well, even if he invited you to go to the kang, Brother Xing would feel embarrassed.

Before he left, he also saw Li Zhouzhou cooking stick bones in that stove.

"What a waste of firewood."

"Msanggong said drinking this will make you healthy." Li Zhouzhou thought that Brother Xing probably didn't take it seriously, so he added: "Drinking with some red dates is good for giving birth."

Brother Xing remembered it now, "I said you bought so many bones last time, just to make up for your body, so it was convenient here, so you have to make up for it, like I have been married for more than a year. This movement, how much wronged you have suffered."

"But you are not in a hurry, unlike me who has a mother-in-law above me."

Li Zhouzhou sent Brother Xing out.

When Xinggeer was 12 years old, his younger brother fell into it because his younger brother was playing by the river. It was just winter, and the spring was cold. Xinggeer went into the water to save his brother. After returning, both of them got cold, and the second aunt loved her son , The medicine is also fed, that is, the son drinks it for the first time, and then decocts it for the second time to feed Xing Geer.

The medicine is decocted for the second time and the medicine is weak.Father is gone because of this, Li Zhouzhou is so young that he can't remember clearly, so he dared to tell his second aunt, but of course he was scolded by his second aunt.

What your father drank was the dregs of the medicine that had been fried four or five times. Would it be the same if it was fried the second time?

Go, don't delay me feeding Guangzong medicine.

The family is separated, and you, a little doll, still come to take care of my family's affairs?

Li Zhouzhou was only 13 years old at that time, and he didn't have much money to raise chickens and save eggs, so he bought all the medicines for Xing Geer, just two doses.He used a large stove to cook secretly, he knew that his father didn't love Erfang and left Erfang's family cold, so he spent so much money decocting Xingge'er for fear that his father would be angry.

Brother Xing came to Li Zhouzhou's house to drink medicine, and he did it secretly.

It's just two doses of medicine, and I'm done drinking.I don't know if it's the effect of these two medicines, or if Brother Xing'er is young and has a good foundation to carry it over.

Later, Xinggeer became a different person after he got better, and he was kind to his younger siblings, but he didn’t spend his heart and soul like before, and later married the Wang family. Xinggeer’s stomach didn’t move for more than a year, and his mother-in-law whispered secretly, People in the village also gossiped about it, saying that it might not be cold at that time.

Li Zhouzhou didn't understand at that time, he didn't understand these things because he wasn't married.Now that Xianggong talked about the women in the prefecture and county, Li Zhouzhou realized that it had something to do with Brother Xing's falling into the water?

"Bones and jujubes are cheap because they are cheap, but they are just useless firewood. My mother-in-law is not happy for me to stew all afternoon. They will call me prodigal and lazy." There is already a Yuan Yuan, so there is no hurry.

Having said that, Brother Xing still wants to take care of his body, and he will have another one in the future.Who has one child in every household in the village?There are more brothers to help.

The stove in Zhou Zhou's house looks good. It doesn't cost a lot of firewood to cook a small pot. If not, let his family go to the mountains to pick some up.

Brother Xing thought all the way, and when he arrived in the yard, his mother-in-law took a look at him and said where he went wild again.Brother Xing didn't like to hear this, what did he mean by going wild, as if he was stealing a man, he immediately said: "I'll go to Zhou Zhou's house to talk."

The mother-in-law was speechless, and said that it was getting dark, so hurry up and cook.

Brother Xing and his sister-in-law went to the stove house to help cook and work. While doing it, they couldn't help but mention the stove of Li Zhou Zhou's house, "...it's so high, it's warm enough to sit in the main room all afternoon. , It’s convenient to boil hot water and cook something.”

"Fei's troublesome thing, the big stove is not enough for you to burn." Brother Xing's mother-in-law didn't love her at first, and pulled her face. This brother Xing always thought that if it was done, the second son's money would be wiped out. .

Mrs. Xu came out and said, "Sounds good."

But there is no next word after boasting.Brother Xing was cooking the stove, so he knew that the sister-in-law was a mess. If the sister-in-law finished talking and asked more questions, he could continue talking.

Mrs. Xu saw that Brother Xing was silent, thought about the candy that Brother Xing gave, and asked if the stove was expensive.

"It's not expensive. I heard from Zhou Zhou that sixty renminbi can make two stoves and two pots, and it doesn't cost much firewood. It can also be placed in the house for heating. In cold weather, there is no need to burn a kang during the day. Isn't this a saving..."

Brother Xing praised the stove so much that he wanted to buy two with his sister-in-law.

When Xu heard that sixty cash was too expensive, even if everything was two, it would cost thirty cash. Thirty cash can buy three catties of meat and a piece of candy.

It was a waste of money.

Brother Xing talked fast, made the medicine stove bigger and said it, and he knew it was not good after he finished speaking.Mrs. Xu finally found a reason to refuse, "It's a medicine stove, so it's not easy to keep it at home. Your Yuan Yuan is still young, so you have to be more careful."

"It's all right, Yuan Yuan is still so young, it's not easy to mention this, you are still a dear father."

Brother Xing was full of grievances and anger.He is Yuan Yuan's father, can he still harm Yuan Yuan?

The mother-in-law just wanted to scold him through the law, and didn't want him to buy a stove.

I gave my sister-in-law four pieces of caramel for nothing, if I had known earlier, I would just pay back one piece.

pissed him off!

For dinner that day, Brother Xing only drank half a bowl and didn't want to eat anymore, so he pushed it all to his man.Wang Shitou saw that Auntie on the table looked unhappy, smiled and said nothing, took Xinggeer's leftovers and ate, and finally went back to the house to whisper with Xinggeer.

"Why are you angry? Sister-in-law provoked you?"

"Wang Shitou, don't talk nonsense with me, sister-in-law has a doughy temper, and I get angry with her, it seems that I am tricky and mean, am I that kind of person?" Brother Xing called the white man angrily.

Wang Shitou hugged the man and said, "Yes, yes, what's wrong if I said something wrong?"

"I want a stove..." Brother Xing's voice was low, and he said bone soup to make up his body, and the more he said, the more wronged he became, "...my mother said that about me, I was wronged to death, I am Yuan Yuan's father I don't want Yuanyuan, okay? He was born to me."

When Wang Shitou was a boy, he secretly hated Brother Xing, and couldn't see Brother Xing being wronged and uncomfortable. His mother said that Brother Xing spent money lavishly, but Wang Shitou knew that Brother Xing knew it all.

"Buy, I'll go up the mountain to pick up firewood, and tomorrow I'll go to Li's house and ask my uncle, and then I'll go to Shili Village with him and order a stove and pot, and then I'll carry it back."

After all, it is leisure time, there is no work in the field, so there is nothing to be afraid of running twice.