The husband's son-in-law
Chapter 26
Wang Ergou's body was carried out from the paddy field, surrounded by a dark circle of men, the outer layer was the courageous uncles and women who came to watch the excitement, the timid ones stood far away, and all stayed at home The child is not allowed to look at it.
When Li Zhouzhou and Mr. Xiang came out, they heard the words of a few familiar uncles and aunts.
"...The face is swollen and rotten, it must have been eaten by the loach and frog in the field."
"Stop talking, it's scary, I glanced at it from afar, and I felt a chill."
It’s not the cold air, it’s been cold for ten days in a row, and the ground has never been dry. Someone rubbed his arms and said, “Yesterday was Qingming. Do you think it could be something like that…”
"There's an old saying that you can't walk at night on Ching Ming night. The night road is for your ancestors." The fear of speaking made the ghost circle around his mouth and changed it to ancestors.
The ghost who can walk the night road in Xiping Village is of course the elder of the village who died.
Li Zhouzhou went over to ask how Wang Ergou died, and said that it was so lively and enthusiastic, and he didn't mind being bothered, so he taught Li Zhouzhou and Gu Shulang a lesson.
"The first one I found was Zhang Zhuzi. He said that he would go to the field in the morning to have a look. From a distance, there was something lying on the paddy field. It was a big black lump. He was afraid that his paddy field would be crushed. Go and have a look, and guess what? ?”
The answer has already been surrounded, so it's still guesswork.Gu Zhao sometimes felt that the uncles and aunts in the village chatted and chatted lively. Some people talked very well and fascinating, like stand-up comics, and some were not dry.
This aunt is obviously eloquent, and her expression is very cooperative.
"It's a man, lying in the paddy field, his clothes were wet, Zhang Zhuzi was frightened, he yelled twice, but he didn't move, he picked up a branch and poked it, but he didn't move. , I saw that Wang Ergou's face was rotten, and he died in his paddy field a long time ago..."
There is no need to be flattering, this aunt finished speaking vividly, and must have added a sentence at the end: "It is appointed that the ghosts dragged down the paddy fields."
This one regards Wang Ergou's death as a lively event. After all, there has not been such a mysterious way of death in the village for a long time. In addition, it was still Qingming yesterday, so there is more to say. Regarding Wang Ergou's death, these talkative women Not a bit of sincere sigh, just saying something pitiful, and then continue to study happily.
On the other side of the field, the Tian family of the Zhang family is yelling: "Fucking Wang Ergou, he will not die anywhere else. He will die in my paddy field and dirty my land. It's bad luck!"
"What are you talking about? My son is dead—" Wang Ergou sat on the ground crying and couldn't get up. As soon as she got up, she was spat on by Mrs. Tian.
Mrs. Tian put her hips on her hips and cursed: "Your son is not my family's dead. He is not dead. Picking my family's paddy field is such an unlucky thing. If it delays the crops in my family's field, should I ask you for money or for money?" If you want money, give it to my old lady here!"
Someone persuaded Tian to say a few words less, and everyone died.
"Dare not to die in your field, you love so much, take Wang Ergou back and soak in your field for one night, will you still eat the rice you grow in the future!"
He pouted and said, "Everyone is dead." This guy's face turned blue, but he really didn't dare to say anything else.If Wang Ergou dies and soaks in his field for one night, then who will eat this kind of rice——
Thinking about it is really bad luck.
The village chief thought it was a headache from the quarrel, so he shouted and asked Zhang Zhuzi to take care of his wife, what is the man talking about.Zhang Zhuzi was trembling before he could speak, Tian sat on the ground first, and the little widow screamed as if going to the grave, Lao Gao began to cry, crying worse than Wang Ergou, whose son died.
"How can I be so pitiful? My family has provoked someone. I can't say that the good and fertile land is tainted with bad luck."
"Why is my life so hard? The Zhang family bullies me in the village. I have poor fertile land. Wang Ergou's family wants to compensate me for my fertile land. Please comment."
"It's not me who killed Wang Ergou. It's him who didn't have eyesight and drank too much. It's not good to piss. It's not good to lose my family, my fertile field, and my rice."
The tone was long and thin, and the voice was thin and high-pitched, covering Wang Ergou's crying.
Just because Mrs. Tian can cry, scold and make trouble, if this is unreasonable, the village chief can still hold back, and Mrs. Tian doesn't dare to do this, but for this matter, the village chief can only let Mrs. Tian find Wang Ergou's family. Crying and howling is better than asking him to ask for a fertilizer.
Poor Wang Ergou's parents heard that their son had died early in the morning, and they came to recognize the body. Before they cried, they expressed their grief over the loss of their only son.
Aunt Wang Ergou stopped crying, and sat on the ground for a while, not knowing whether to say that she would not pay the money, or crying for her son.Uncle Wang stood in front of Wang Ergou's body, as if he was frightened, his face was pale, he took a few steps back, and passed out.
"Uncle Wang is dizzy."
"Hey, it's a crime. Xiaotian contracted a cold two days ago and still hasn't recovered. Now that Wang Ergou is dead, what will Uncle Wang do in the future? I don't want to live anymore."
The village chief told the woman not to be imitative, and a few people came to help Uncle Wang go back first.
Now that Wang Ergou is dead, Uncle Wang has become a widow and must be avoided.
Those who watched the excitement said: "Uncle Wang is also a brother, how can we stand up?"
"That's it."
Send Uncle Wang back to Wang's house, why not stay here and watch the excitement.
In the end, Li Zhouzhou came out to help, and Gu Zhao said, "I'll go with Zhou Zhou."
This arrangement was proper, originally Li Zhouzhou and Uncle Wang were brothers, and there was nothing to avoid, but Wang Ergou had bitten him before, and now that Gu Shulang has also gone, there is really no room for talking.
"It's impossible to have a shadow, isn't it that some people insist on talking to Zhou Zhou and Uncle Wang? Hey, Zhou Zhou is so scared that he buys tofu and runs away after buying it. He can't stop eating tofu in the future. .”
"Now that I'm even going with Gu Shulang, I don't know what to think when I say this behind my back."
Aunt Wang was so angry that she turned around and went back to the yard.
"Whoever is in a hurry can tell whoever is."
Once Wang Uncle fainted, Wang Ergou's parents couldn't leave, and they had to leave someone in charge, how to collect the corpse, how to do funeral affairs, how to bury him, and the Tian family clamored for justice and made the Wang family pay money.
This time it became Wang Ergou's father's decision.
You can't just leave Wang Ergou's body hanging out like this, wait until Uncle Wang wakes up, right?
Wang's courtyard.
Li Zhouzhou held Uncle Wang's arm, Gu Zhao opened the door, but didn't close it. The yard was small except for the stone mill and the stove house, and the expensive sugar and oil were probably locked.
Entering the back room, there was a smell of medicine mixed with a bad smell. After making fertilizer for a month, Gu Zhao could smell the smell of urine. Some people in the village were too lazy to get up at night to go to the backyard to go to the toilet in the cold weather, so they usually put a urine bucket in the house , put it in the house at night, and pour it in the morning.
But no one in the Li family does that.
Gu Zhao opened the door, the main room was piled with messy things, and the other room was where Uncle Wang was sleeping.
Xiao Tian, who was lying on the kang, heard the movement and climbed down from the kang, wearing a single shirt, originally thin and pitiful, but now his face is pale and swollen with blue fingerprints on one side.
Of course, Uncle Wang couldn't be the one who beat him. Uncle Wang valued Oda very much on weekdays.
"Father—" Oda rushed over with his bare feet.
Gu Zhao said: "Your father fainted, you put on your clothes first so you don't feel cold—the wind is cold."
Xiaotian was tearful and afraid to see brother Zhou Zhou. Li Zhouzhou carried Uncle Wang into the kang, wondering if he should tell the truth to Xiaotian. It’s up to you to take care of it, don’t get caught in the cold, put on your clothes first.”
"Sir, let me boil some hot water." Li Zhouzhou thought that leaving Uncle Wang alone was not an option.
Gu Zhao: "We have a stove in our house. Bring a pot when you go home. It's better than cooking at Wang's house."
Li Zhouzhou thought the same, "Xiao Tian, look at your father, I'll come over later."
Xiao Tian climbed onto the kang with his clothes on, and stood by Father's side.
When Li Zhouzhou and Gu Zhao left the yard, they met someone on the way and said a few words to go back to get hot water, so it's not good to use firewood in Wang's house.Waiting for Li Zhouzhou to take the small pot that the family used in the main room in winter, filled a pot of hot water, and took it to Wang's house.
Gu Zhao also followed.
After the two of them left, Uncle Wang had already woken up on the bed. His face was pale and his expression was numb, but his eyes were somewhat calm. He touched his son's hand and panicked when he heard the sound of walking in the main room. Seeing that it was Li Zhouzhou It's better with Gu Shulang.
There was a bowl for Xiaotian to drink medicine and water on the table. Li Zhouzhou poured hot water to rinse it, took it out and poured it into the yard, and returned half a bowl to Uncle Wang.
"Uncle Wang, don't be too sad, don't burn yourself out." Li Zhouzhou couldn't say it clearly at Xiaotian's place.
Uncle Wang didn't drink any water from the bowl, but just covered his hands, as if he was cold.
"A person cannot be resurrected after death. Uncle Wang should take care of important people first. If Uncle Wang is not feeling well in the past few days, don't worry about it. Leave it to the person who should do the work. The more capable you are, the harder it is to take care of your body. Take a look." Gu Zhao patted Xiaotian's head and said, "The future cannot be the same as before, who else can Xiaotian rely on."
Uncle Wang's eyelids moved on the bed, and after glancing at his son, he took a sip of hot water from a bowl and said hoarsely, "Thank you Zhou Zhou and Gu Shulang, I understand."
Li Zhouzhou waved his hand, there is no need to thank him for small things, seeing Uncle Wang's spirit recovered, he and Mr. Xianggong did not stay long, and left the Wang's courtyard.Put the pot here for the time being, and it will be fine if he comes to pick it up in the afternoon.
As soon as the two left, Uncle Wang patted the side of the kang, and Xiao Tian went over. Uncle Wang touched his son's face with his rough and bony hands, "Does it still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt Dad, Dad, I'm fine, don't be sad."
Uncle Wang burst into tears, hugged his son, and murmured: "Your father is dead, Tian is dead, don't be afraid, don't be afraid of Xiaotian..."
The hand that hugged Oda's back trembled violently.
Xiao Tian lay obediently in Father's arms, his eyes were ignorant, and he didn't say anything.
The village head and the old people in the village discussed with Wang Ergou's father, and called a young and strong man to carry Wang Ergou's body back to Wang's house first, and those who should decorate the mourning hall should be arranged.As soon as he entered the courtyard, Wang Ergou's father called Wang Xue's name, meaning to let Wang Xue come out to take care of it.
Wang Xue got down from the kang with great difficulty, and within two steps she was about to pass out again, her complexion was sallow and her eyes were dull, it looked like she had been hit hard, how could she handle a funeral?
The village head frowned, and came out to say something fair: "The elders in the village are helping Wang Ergou's funeral. How can you let your daughter-in-law speak out? If it's done, it's up to you."
What nonsense, let a new widow discuss things with the men in the village?
Wang Xue went back to the house and lay down. He opened his eyes, looked at the dirty roof, and heard the noisy voices of the people in the village. Where is the corpse? I bought it in the town for running errands, and I also bought tables, chairs, benches, tableware and chopsticks for moving seats...
"Father, take a good rest." Oda said.
Wang Xue hummed and closed her eyes, clenched and loosened her hands under the quilt.
really dead.
He didn't know why, he just did that last night.
It’s a long story, ever since Wang Ergou won two taels of silver at the gambling house in the town during the Chinese New Year, he brought back wine and meat, and he was also very angry, so he asked Wang Xue to warm the wine and meat for him. Half a text, eating and drinking stayed in the house for only two days, Wang Ergou thought that Wang Xue had been grinding beans all day to make tofu, and there was a smell, so he left again.
Two taels of silver can spend many days in several villages.
Wang's yard was silent for a long time, and when the new year opened, Wang Ergou came back to ask for money. It turned out that the two taels of silver had been lost, and he said he owed someone to buy a car. If Wang Xue didn't give the money, then he Just sell the fields.
There is a law in the Dali: males are born with five acres of paddy fields and five acres of dry fields, and female brothers are born with five acres.This field will be taken back when people go, but one mu of paddy field and one mu of dry land will be left, which will be accumulated by the ancestors and become the ancestral land.
Grandpa Wang Ergou sold the ancestral land back then.Now the land of the Wang family cannot be sold logically. If Wang Ergou sells it, after Wang Ergou dies, the younger generation will have to pay the money for selling the land, otherwise he will be fined to serve in the military.
Isn't this a clear pit for Oda?
Uncle Wang really had no choice but to give him a tael of silver and still be scolded by his in-laws.I am used to this kind of day, which time is not like this?But since Wang Ergou gambled big and earned two taels of silver, he couldn't play small games at all. At the beginning, he looked down on those with a few pennies, and always wanted to get back his money, thinking about the two taels of silver he earned before.
Coming and going, spending money like running water, and coming back every few days to ask for money, the money Uncle Wang saved is not enough to pay for this, if he refuses to pay, Wang Ergou beats people, Uncle Wang was injured on his arms and face during that time, The blue and purple purple are so unlucky.
So at the beginning of April, it was cold in spring and the temperature dropped, Oda was infected with the wind and cold and had a fever, Uncle Wang decocted medicine for his son to drink, but Wang Ergou who came back saw him, kicked the pot of medicine, and beat Uncle Wang.
I asked you for money, but you said no. If you don’t have money, where can you get the money for medicine?
Wang Ergou's parents can't stand it anymore, Xiaotian is also the blood of the Wang family, so is it possible that his grandson will die of illness?But Wang Ergou was in a state of rage, and Wang Ergou's parents didn't dare to say that they took out the money, and they couldn't stop it. Only Uncle Wang protected Xiaotian and was beaten up.
But Oda was cold and frightened, so he couldn't lie down on the bed.
Uncle Wang really wanted to die during this time. He went to wash clothes by the river and met Gu Shulang. After saying those words, Uncle Wang smiled wryly in his heart. The money is always given out...
Yesterday was Qingming. Uncle Wang went to burn the paper early in the morning. When he came back, he saw Wang Ergou was about to go out. I went to Shili Village and said I’ll come back today, look at it when it’s dark at night, don’t let him walk at night during Qingming, don’t be lazy, or be careful when he comes back and beats you.”
Uncle Wang could only agree.
As soon as it got dark, Uncle Wang looked around outside the village entrance and said he didn't see anyone.This kind of situation also happens. When Wang Ergou left, he said that he would come back that day, and sometimes he would not touch the house after playing for a few days. Wang Ergou's parents thought that they might not come back today. , Let Ergou hang around outside all day.
Wang Xuemu had a straight face, her parents-in-law did not avoid him when she spoke, she was not afraid that he would hear her, she even spoke loudly on purpose, he was used to it, boiled hot water to scrub his son, saw that his son's face was still red and swollen, he couldn't cry at all, tears It has drained.
If it wasn't for Xiaotian, he would have wished to die.
Not long after lying down, Wang Xue couldn't fall asleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, Wang Ergou kicked the door angrily and beat him, saying why no one picked him up this time and asked him to walk at night.
Wang Xue was terrified of being beaten, so he put on his clothes and carried an oil lamp. He didn't light the oil lamp when he went out, because he was afraid of wasting oil.With the moonlight in the fields, you can walk in the dark, and it doesn’t hurt if you fall. If you catch someone, come back on time, and it’s even better if you don’t catch it.
The parents-in-law slept soundly in the house, and they would not wake up without a thunderbolt.
Wang Xue walked along the road to Shili Village from the entrance of the village, and there was a figure on the dark ridge of the field, humming and cursing at someone, Wang Xue couldn't forget it even after he died, it was the sound of Wang Ergou who was drunk.
He was hesitating whether to go up or not, when he saw the shadow fall and roll into the paddy field.
Wang Xue ran over in a hurry, stood on the ridge of the field and watched Wang Ergou paw and pull in the paddy field. Wang Ergou, who is usually tall and tall, would be so drunk that he didn't even have the strength to stand up, and was choked by the paddy field. It's a cough.
If one day I fell down while walking, in this weather, I am afraid that I will fall down in the paddy field, and I will be gone that night...
Wang Xue's outstretched arm stopped in the air, and Gu Shulang's words instantly came to mind. If Wang Ergou was gone, wouldn't it mean that no one would beat his son, no one would ask him for money, no one would beat him?
Wang Xue looked at Wang Ergou in the paddy field, and stood there for a few seconds in a daze. She seemed to have realized it, and quickly ran back with the oil lamp. He ran so fast that he fell down, and his trousers and clothes were covered in mud.
After returning to the yard and closing the door, Wang Xue became afraid, and the more she thought about it, the more afraid she became.
If Wang Ergou didn't die, if Wang Ergou saw him, did Wang Ergou call him by name when he ran away?If anyone in the village sees it.
Worried, Wang Xue took off her muddy clothes and soaked them in water, and entered the house in unlined clothes.The snoring in the parents-in-law's room was loud, but they didn't wake them up. Wang Xue gently opened the door of the inner room and put on the oil lamp. His son Xiaotian opened his eyes in a daze and asked Dad where you were.
"I just went to get up at night and fell down."
Xiaotian struggled to get up, but Wang Xue felt calm now, and laid her son back down, saying, "Father is fine, you continue to sleep, but the clothes are dirty."
If Wang Ergou is not dead, then kill him.
This time, Wang Xue slept soundly. The next morning, it was raining lightly again. His underwear was still soaked, so he could only wear unlined clothes. Someone knocked on the door outside the yard, and Wang Xue's heart was also pounding. , opened the door, Zhang Zhuzi's big cow said: "Your dog Wang Ergou died in my field."
After that, the parents-in-law didn't believe it and went to the field to identify the corpse.Wang Xue had a white face, the cold wind was blowing, and the rain was drenching. He couldn't tell what it was like. He had been afraid for so many years. If Wang Ergou said a word loudly, he would tremble with fright. Wang Ergou died.
really dead.
"It was Wang Xue, it was Wang Xue who killed my second dog." The mother-in-law came up to beat him.
Wang Xue stood still. He was the one who killed her. He didn't extend his hand to help her, but he didn't regret it.
After listening to what Aunt Wang Ergou said, the villagers didn't know that your Ergou went out to gamble and didn't come back for several days in a row.Could it be that Uncle Wang was really asked to stay here in the field all night and wait?
This Wang Ergou's parents are too mean, they ruined Uncle Wang like this.
"I went there at night, but I didn't see it." Wang Xue murmured.
It’s still gone and I didn’t see it. If Wang Ergou’s parents really love their son, why don’t they go to the field and wait by themselves?
The procrastination and noise continued, Uncle Wang lay on his side on the kang, letting his in-laws cry and scold, during which time his mother-in-law came in and asked him for money for the funeral.
"There's no money, no money, mother, otherwise Ergou wouldn't beat Xiaotian and beat me, and you still got the money for Xiaotian's medicine."
Aunt Wang Ergou scolded. She felt so sad that she didn't know who to scold, so she had to catch Wang Xue to scold.
Lost door star, unlucky...
Those who came from the village outside to help with the funeral shook their heads. This Wang Ergou is too much of a bully. If it hadn't been for Uncle Wang's support these years, this family would have been bet by Wang Ergou without even a single tile.
"Xiaotian, why are you washing clothes here?" the village aunt asked when she saw her.Hey, sorry to see you, there are still slap prints on Xiaotian's face. If Uncle Wang has money, he will assign it to him, and he didn't bring Wang Ergou to touch Xiaotian.
It can be seen that it was really hollowed out.
On the contrary, the old woman said that Uncle Wang was in charge of the money in the family. Every time Wang Ergou asked for money, Uncle Wang wanted it. As a result, it was kept secretly, and she neither farmed nor made tofu. I picked out what I had saved from Uncle Wang.
Oda: "My father went to look for my father last night, and he fell down when he came back. His arm hurts so I have to wash it."
"You are so sensible and filial, good boy, Auntie will wash it."
"Auntie, I've already washed it, but I just can't wring it out."
"Your little arms and legs don't have any strength, of course you can't twist them dry, come to Auntie to twist them."
……
The village held a funeral, and the coffin was suspended for three days before being buried in the ground.In the past three days, the village opened its eyes to see that Wang Ergou was murdered by ghosts, or how Aunt Wang Ergou was mean to Uncle Wang, and Uncle Wang was scolded when he fell ill. Water leaks, rainwater hitting Wang Ergou's tablet, all of these can be treated as tricks.
It is said that Wang Ergou did evil in his lifetime, and God does not want him to lie in the mourning hall peacefully after death.Otherwise, why did it disappear on the night of Qingming Festival?This person can't be idle, beat his wife and children, God will not see it.
Of course, the last sentence is said a lot by the women in the village. There is no stumbling block in the family. Sometimes they have to fight when they quarrel. Of course, those who have been beaten are not happy. God.
Adding to the farce for Wang Ergou's death was Tian's demand for compensation from the Wang family.
The Tian family made a big fuss in Wang Ergou's mourning hall. They insisted on paying compensation or they would not leave, saying that Wang Ergou soaked her paddy fields all night, which was bad luck. Could it be that your son is justified in spending my fertile fields for nothing?
When Gu Zhao heard this, he almost burst out laughing.
This is not a hot spring.
"Did you give it in the end?" Li Zhouzhou asked Brother Xing.
Brother Xing patted his legs happily, and said: "Yes, Wang Ergou's mother will not give it. Zhang's family will not leave if he refuses to give it. He is crying for her paddy fields in the mourning hall. Do you think this is for Wang Ergou? The mourning hall was set up for the paddy fields of the Zhang family..."
"Give me [-] Wen and send it away."
Although the money is small, but fortunately there is.Tian not only took the money, but also bought some yellow paper joss sticks from the mourning hall, and burned them in the paddy field of her house where the dead people were, and inserted the incense, saying that God opened his eyes, and the bad things were done by Wang Ergou. If your ancestors ate the incense, they would go back to the ground.
After Tian's worship, Wang Ergou was buried the next day. After ten days of light rain, it finally stopped, and the sun came out, which was very sunny.
Now the village believed that Wang Ergou was locked up by the ghost ancestor who came back to visit in Qingming.
Whoever made Wang Ergou's mouth dirty, scolding everyone he saw, must have collided.
No one in the village believes Wang Ergou's mother when she said that Uncle Wang killed her son.
"..." Wang Ergou swallowed back his motherly curse.
The two old people also started to believe, otherwise why is it so small, and the rain leaked on the memorial tablet, and the sun came out of the funeral.
After the funeral was over, Xiao Tian walked in front of the grave wearing a sackcloth and wearing a filial piety holding a clay basin. The basin fell in front of the grave, and Wang Ergou's parents cried out for my son, my poor son. Oda Mu knelt down and couldn't cry. Uncle Wang cried a bit.
But it sounds like Tian's mourning routine, there are no tears, but there is a voice.
When attending funerals, the villagers also said that Uncle Wang was too sad, he is really kind.The word 'good', Gu Zhao heard, might mean Uncle Wang's holy father's meaning.
People in the village like to gossip, the parents of the east and the family of the west are short-sighted, you obviously take advantage of it, and if you don’t pay attention, you will become unreasonable—unless you are as shameless as Tian’s, and the three adult men of the Zhang family can stand up and be a deterrent .
Otherwise, Tian wouldn't dare to make such a fuss.
In the village, it depends on who has more families, more land, and more strong men.In the past, Zhou Zhou in his family had had enough of people behind their backs gossiping about their tongues, but these people laughed behind their backs and dared not bring it in front of the Li family father and son because the father and son were very strong.
Speaking of Uncle Wang, when Wang Ergou was alive, everyone in the village knew that he was not a thing, but no one dared to provoke him, because Wang Ergou was born tall, and no one cared about him.Now that Wang Ergou is dead, there is only an elderly father-in-law with inflexible arms, a mother-in-law who drinks medicine all the year round, and Xiao Tian, who is thin and small with a medicine jar, in the Wang family's house.
Uncle Wang, if he is as aggressive as Tian's, he will be at a disadvantage.
Sometimes showing weakness is not really showing weakness. Just look at this time, Uncle Wang didn’t pay a penny. He lay in the house for a day, struggled to get up the next day to talk about work, and was persuaded by the aunt in the village to go back and rest. , Lost a good reputation.
His parents-in-law have been gobbled up by the village behind their backs.
Now that Uncle Wang has become a widow, the village must avoid it, so as not to get the reputation of bullying orphans and widows.
The death of Wang Ergou finally came to an end in the middle of the feast.
The weather is getting hotter, the ground can be planted within two days, and there is no more mud. It just so happens that the manure piled by Li's family has also healed, and the days of fertilizing have begun again.Naturally, when the villagers saw it, they laughed again, saying that it had been raining for ten days, so why is there still Xishui?Not afraid of drowning?
Even Brother Xing also kindly persuaded Li Zhouzhou, you should just listen to your husband-in-law, why don't you listen to the crops?Hurry up and stop messing around, and advise uncle.
Li Zhouzhou received Brother Xing's kindness, and then he and his father continued to bear fat.
After composting the ten acres of dry land, it's time to transplant rice seedlings.
Throughout March and April, the three members of Li's family didn't stop much.
At the end of April, the village finally changed their jackets and began to wear unlined clothes. Li Zhouzhou began to disassemble and wash them. For example, the quilted clothes are not easy to put in the water directly. After washing the cotton, they will not be warm. It is like washing a thick cotton quilt in winter. The face is removed, and the inside is covered with a cotton net covered with cotton thread, which has been dried. After the face is dried, it is re-sewn.
The same goes for clothes.
Li Zhouzhou dismantled the jackets of the three people in his family, washed the cotton and dried them in the sun, put them back together and sewed them up, and then folded them up and put them in the suitcase. That's it.
The single clothes are light and thin, and it is convenient to do things.At home, Gu Zhao likes to wear the bunts his wife wore during adolescence.
"Sanggong, have you grown taller?" Li Zhouzhou looked at Xianggong's tight clothes.
Gu Zhao moved his arms. His clothes were brittle, but when he raised his hand, his armpit cracked open.
"I wore your 15-year-old clothes last winter. This set was put together with the cotton padded clothes. You said they were all worn by 15-year-old..."
Gu Zhao grew taller, and his frame stretched out.
Li Zhouzhou was 15 meters tall at the age of 1.7, but he was small in frame and tall and thin.Years ago, when Gu Zhao wore Li Zhouzhou's 15-year-old cotton padded jacket, it was still a little loose, and the trouser legs were a little long, so they were as wide as two or three fingers.
Gu Zhao looked at the door frame at Gu's house, and his height was about 1.7 meters three or seven four. Because he was thin and frail, he looked smaller.
In the new year, Gu Zhao is 17 years old, and his birthday is in the first lunar month.
This winter, Li's family is full of bone soup, and Gu Zhao is not like the original body who does not work. After a winter, he usually wears jackets that don't show much, but now he puts on unlined clothes, and his body suddenly becomes taller and more generous.
"I've really grown taller." Gu Zhao happily stood next to his wife, the effect was relatively small, invisible to the naked eye, maybe two centimeters?
That is also 1.7 meters six, seven seven.
According to the modern age of 1.8 meters [-] when he was a junior, it is still possible to make a dash!
Li Zhouzhou was also happy, his husband was taller, his body was stronger, he was still beautiful, and he was a little more angry.Unlike before, some people in the village said that Xianggong was weak, like another medicine jar.
Xianggong is not it!
The wheat in the field looks different every day. Peasants go to the field every day to look around to feel at ease. In the middle of May, the wheat fields are lush green, the wheat calves are high, and the ears of wheat grow fast.
When Li Da fertilized the fields, he didn't have much hope at that time. Anyway, if the farmers don't work on the fields, there is no harm, and there is no harm in wasting effort.But as he went to the field day by day, especially when the ears of wheat were knotted, he knew the difference when he touched it with his hands.
Unlike the wheat ears of previous years, this year's wheat ears should be tight and dense.
Li Da didn't dare to show his face, and kept guessing in his heart, but as the days passed, the crops in the field were growing brightly, and they couldn't cover them up. Look out.
"Li Da, the land of your house is lush green, and the tassels are heavy. They grow well."
"It's different from other places at a glance."
The villagers noticed that Li Da couldn't keep a low profile, so he could only wave his hands and say, "I forgot about my family's fertilizer? I haven't fed the food yet, so I don't know what's going on."
That's true, maybe it looks good, there are many empty shells of wheat ears, and it's not uncommon.
I thought so, but some people still murmured: Is that Xishui really useful?
Whether there is any need to wait for the harvest to know.
Every household in the village has to pay taxes. After the harvest, the husks are bagged and weighed. No one dares to lie about it.
Who knows whether the crops in the field are good or bad.
Last year there was enough snow and water in the winter, and it rained a few more times in spring. The crops in every household are growing well. Although the fields of Li’s family are indeed outstanding, many people think that they are growing well. With the Xishui, where can they be fertilized? , Is it possible that the harvest can still be ten fights behind them?
It is estimated that there are more than one or two buckets.
A bucket of twenty catties, ten buckets of two hundred catties.
Before the harvest, no one believed that the fields of the Li family could be doubled per acre, even Li Da himself did not believe it.
When Li Zhouzhou and Mr. Xiang came out, they heard the words of a few familiar uncles and aunts.
"...The face is swollen and rotten, it must have been eaten by the loach and frog in the field."
"Stop talking, it's scary, I glanced at it from afar, and I felt a chill."
It’s not the cold air, it’s been cold for ten days in a row, and the ground has never been dry. Someone rubbed his arms and said, “Yesterday was Qingming. Do you think it could be something like that…”
"There's an old saying that you can't walk at night on Ching Ming night. The night road is for your ancestors." The fear of speaking made the ghost circle around his mouth and changed it to ancestors.
The ghost who can walk the night road in Xiping Village is of course the elder of the village who died.
Li Zhouzhou went over to ask how Wang Ergou died, and said that it was so lively and enthusiastic, and he didn't mind being bothered, so he taught Li Zhouzhou and Gu Shulang a lesson.
"The first one I found was Zhang Zhuzi. He said that he would go to the field in the morning to have a look. From a distance, there was something lying on the paddy field. It was a big black lump. He was afraid that his paddy field would be crushed. Go and have a look, and guess what? ?”
The answer has already been surrounded, so it's still guesswork.Gu Zhao sometimes felt that the uncles and aunts in the village chatted and chatted lively. Some people talked very well and fascinating, like stand-up comics, and some were not dry.
This aunt is obviously eloquent, and her expression is very cooperative.
"It's a man, lying in the paddy field, his clothes were wet, Zhang Zhuzi was frightened, he yelled twice, but he didn't move, he picked up a branch and poked it, but he didn't move. , I saw that Wang Ergou's face was rotten, and he died in his paddy field a long time ago..."
There is no need to be flattering, this aunt finished speaking vividly, and must have added a sentence at the end: "It is appointed that the ghosts dragged down the paddy fields."
This one regards Wang Ergou's death as a lively event. After all, there has not been such a mysterious way of death in the village for a long time. In addition, it was still Qingming yesterday, so there is more to say. Regarding Wang Ergou's death, these talkative women Not a bit of sincere sigh, just saying something pitiful, and then continue to study happily.
On the other side of the field, the Tian family of the Zhang family is yelling: "Fucking Wang Ergou, he will not die anywhere else. He will die in my paddy field and dirty my land. It's bad luck!"
"What are you talking about? My son is dead—" Wang Ergou sat on the ground crying and couldn't get up. As soon as she got up, she was spat on by Mrs. Tian.
Mrs. Tian put her hips on her hips and cursed: "Your son is not my family's dead. He is not dead. Picking my family's paddy field is such an unlucky thing. If it delays the crops in my family's field, should I ask you for money or for money?" If you want money, give it to my old lady here!"
Someone persuaded Tian to say a few words less, and everyone died.
"Dare not to die in your field, you love so much, take Wang Ergou back and soak in your field for one night, will you still eat the rice you grow in the future!"
He pouted and said, "Everyone is dead." This guy's face turned blue, but he really didn't dare to say anything else.If Wang Ergou dies and soaks in his field for one night, then who will eat this kind of rice——
Thinking about it is really bad luck.
The village chief thought it was a headache from the quarrel, so he shouted and asked Zhang Zhuzi to take care of his wife, what is the man talking about.Zhang Zhuzi was trembling before he could speak, Tian sat on the ground first, and the little widow screamed as if going to the grave, Lao Gao began to cry, crying worse than Wang Ergou, whose son died.
"How can I be so pitiful? My family has provoked someone. I can't say that the good and fertile land is tainted with bad luck."
"Why is my life so hard? The Zhang family bullies me in the village. I have poor fertile land. Wang Ergou's family wants to compensate me for my fertile land. Please comment."
"It's not me who killed Wang Ergou. It's him who didn't have eyesight and drank too much. It's not good to piss. It's not good to lose my family, my fertile field, and my rice."
The tone was long and thin, and the voice was thin and high-pitched, covering Wang Ergou's crying.
Just because Mrs. Tian can cry, scold and make trouble, if this is unreasonable, the village chief can still hold back, and Mrs. Tian doesn't dare to do this, but for this matter, the village chief can only let Mrs. Tian find Wang Ergou's family. Crying and howling is better than asking him to ask for a fertilizer.
Poor Wang Ergou's parents heard that their son had died early in the morning, and they came to recognize the body. Before they cried, they expressed their grief over the loss of their only son.
Aunt Wang Ergou stopped crying, and sat on the ground for a while, not knowing whether to say that she would not pay the money, or crying for her son.Uncle Wang stood in front of Wang Ergou's body, as if he was frightened, his face was pale, he took a few steps back, and passed out.
"Uncle Wang is dizzy."
"Hey, it's a crime. Xiaotian contracted a cold two days ago and still hasn't recovered. Now that Wang Ergou is dead, what will Uncle Wang do in the future? I don't want to live anymore."
The village chief told the woman not to be imitative, and a few people came to help Uncle Wang go back first.
Now that Wang Ergou is dead, Uncle Wang has become a widow and must be avoided.
Those who watched the excitement said: "Uncle Wang is also a brother, how can we stand up?"
"That's it."
Send Uncle Wang back to Wang's house, why not stay here and watch the excitement.
In the end, Li Zhouzhou came out to help, and Gu Zhao said, "I'll go with Zhou Zhou."
This arrangement was proper, originally Li Zhouzhou and Uncle Wang were brothers, and there was nothing to avoid, but Wang Ergou had bitten him before, and now that Gu Shulang has also gone, there is really no room for talking.
"It's impossible to have a shadow, isn't it that some people insist on talking to Zhou Zhou and Uncle Wang? Hey, Zhou Zhou is so scared that he buys tofu and runs away after buying it. He can't stop eating tofu in the future. .”
"Now that I'm even going with Gu Shulang, I don't know what to think when I say this behind my back."
Aunt Wang was so angry that she turned around and went back to the yard.
"Whoever is in a hurry can tell whoever is."
Once Wang Uncle fainted, Wang Ergou's parents couldn't leave, and they had to leave someone in charge, how to collect the corpse, how to do funeral affairs, how to bury him, and the Tian family clamored for justice and made the Wang family pay money.
This time it became Wang Ergou's father's decision.
You can't just leave Wang Ergou's body hanging out like this, wait until Uncle Wang wakes up, right?
Wang's courtyard.
Li Zhouzhou held Uncle Wang's arm, Gu Zhao opened the door, but didn't close it. The yard was small except for the stone mill and the stove house, and the expensive sugar and oil were probably locked.
Entering the back room, there was a smell of medicine mixed with a bad smell. After making fertilizer for a month, Gu Zhao could smell the smell of urine. Some people in the village were too lazy to get up at night to go to the backyard to go to the toilet in the cold weather, so they usually put a urine bucket in the house , put it in the house at night, and pour it in the morning.
But no one in the Li family does that.
Gu Zhao opened the door, the main room was piled with messy things, and the other room was where Uncle Wang was sleeping.
Xiao Tian, who was lying on the kang, heard the movement and climbed down from the kang, wearing a single shirt, originally thin and pitiful, but now his face is pale and swollen with blue fingerprints on one side.
Of course, Uncle Wang couldn't be the one who beat him. Uncle Wang valued Oda very much on weekdays.
"Father—" Oda rushed over with his bare feet.
Gu Zhao said: "Your father fainted, you put on your clothes first so you don't feel cold—the wind is cold."
Xiaotian was tearful and afraid to see brother Zhou Zhou. Li Zhouzhou carried Uncle Wang into the kang, wondering if he should tell the truth to Xiaotian. It’s up to you to take care of it, don’t get caught in the cold, put on your clothes first.”
"Sir, let me boil some hot water." Li Zhouzhou thought that leaving Uncle Wang alone was not an option.
Gu Zhao: "We have a stove in our house. Bring a pot when you go home. It's better than cooking at Wang's house."
Li Zhouzhou thought the same, "Xiao Tian, look at your father, I'll come over later."
Xiao Tian climbed onto the kang with his clothes on, and stood by Father's side.
When Li Zhouzhou and Gu Zhao left the yard, they met someone on the way and said a few words to go back to get hot water, so it's not good to use firewood in Wang's house.Waiting for Li Zhouzhou to take the small pot that the family used in the main room in winter, filled a pot of hot water, and took it to Wang's house.
Gu Zhao also followed.
After the two of them left, Uncle Wang had already woken up on the bed. His face was pale and his expression was numb, but his eyes were somewhat calm. He touched his son's hand and panicked when he heard the sound of walking in the main room. Seeing that it was Li Zhouzhou It's better with Gu Shulang.
There was a bowl for Xiaotian to drink medicine and water on the table. Li Zhouzhou poured hot water to rinse it, took it out and poured it into the yard, and returned half a bowl to Uncle Wang.
"Uncle Wang, don't be too sad, don't burn yourself out." Li Zhouzhou couldn't say it clearly at Xiaotian's place.
Uncle Wang didn't drink any water from the bowl, but just covered his hands, as if he was cold.
"A person cannot be resurrected after death. Uncle Wang should take care of important people first. If Uncle Wang is not feeling well in the past few days, don't worry about it. Leave it to the person who should do the work. The more capable you are, the harder it is to take care of your body. Take a look." Gu Zhao patted Xiaotian's head and said, "The future cannot be the same as before, who else can Xiaotian rely on."
Uncle Wang's eyelids moved on the bed, and after glancing at his son, he took a sip of hot water from a bowl and said hoarsely, "Thank you Zhou Zhou and Gu Shulang, I understand."
Li Zhouzhou waved his hand, there is no need to thank him for small things, seeing Uncle Wang's spirit recovered, he and Mr. Xianggong did not stay long, and left the Wang's courtyard.Put the pot here for the time being, and it will be fine if he comes to pick it up in the afternoon.
As soon as the two left, Uncle Wang patted the side of the kang, and Xiao Tian went over. Uncle Wang touched his son's face with his rough and bony hands, "Does it still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt Dad, Dad, I'm fine, don't be sad."
Uncle Wang burst into tears, hugged his son, and murmured: "Your father is dead, Tian is dead, don't be afraid, don't be afraid of Xiaotian..."
The hand that hugged Oda's back trembled violently.
Xiao Tian lay obediently in Father's arms, his eyes were ignorant, and he didn't say anything.
The village head and the old people in the village discussed with Wang Ergou's father, and called a young and strong man to carry Wang Ergou's body back to Wang's house first, and those who should decorate the mourning hall should be arranged.As soon as he entered the courtyard, Wang Ergou's father called Wang Xue's name, meaning to let Wang Xue come out to take care of it.
Wang Xue got down from the kang with great difficulty, and within two steps she was about to pass out again, her complexion was sallow and her eyes were dull, it looked like she had been hit hard, how could she handle a funeral?
The village head frowned, and came out to say something fair: "The elders in the village are helping Wang Ergou's funeral. How can you let your daughter-in-law speak out? If it's done, it's up to you."
What nonsense, let a new widow discuss things with the men in the village?
Wang Xue went back to the house and lay down. He opened his eyes, looked at the dirty roof, and heard the noisy voices of the people in the village. Where is the corpse? I bought it in the town for running errands, and I also bought tables, chairs, benches, tableware and chopsticks for moving seats...
"Father, take a good rest." Oda said.
Wang Xue hummed and closed her eyes, clenched and loosened her hands under the quilt.
really dead.
He didn't know why, he just did that last night.
It’s a long story, ever since Wang Ergou won two taels of silver at the gambling house in the town during the Chinese New Year, he brought back wine and meat, and he was also very angry, so he asked Wang Xue to warm the wine and meat for him. Half a text, eating and drinking stayed in the house for only two days, Wang Ergou thought that Wang Xue had been grinding beans all day to make tofu, and there was a smell, so he left again.
Two taels of silver can spend many days in several villages.
Wang's yard was silent for a long time, and when the new year opened, Wang Ergou came back to ask for money. It turned out that the two taels of silver had been lost, and he said he owed someone to buy a car. If Wang Xue didn't give the money, then he Just sell the fields.
There is a law in the Dali: males are born with five acres of paddy fields and five acres of dry fields, and female brothers are born with five acres.This field will be taken back when people go, but one mu of paddy field and one mu of dry land will be left, which will be accumulated by the ancestors and become the ancestral land.
Grandpa Wang Ergou sold the ancestral land back then.Now the land of the Wang family cannot be sold logically. If Wang Ergou sells it, after Wang Ergou dies, the younger generation will have to pay the money for selling the land, otherwise he will be fined to serve in the military.
Isn't this a clear pit for Oda?
Uncle Wang really had no choice but to give him a tael of silver and still be scolded by his in-laws.I am used to this kind of day, which time is not like this?But since Wang Ergou gambled big and earned two taels of silver, he couldn't play small games at all. At the beginning, he looked down on those with a few pennies, and always wanted to get back his money, thinking about the two taels of silver he earned before.
Coming and going, spending money like running water, and coming back every few days to ask for money, the money Uncle Wang saved is not enough to pay for this, if he refuses to pay, Wang Ergou beats people, Uncle Wang was injured on his arms and face during that time, The blue and purple purple are so unlucky.
So at the beginning of April, it was cold in spring and the temperature dropped, Oda was infected with the wind and cold and had a fever, Uncle Wang decocted medicine for his son to drink, but Wang Ergou who came back saw him, kicked the pot of medicine, and beat Uncle Wang.
I asked you for money, but you said no. If you don’t have money, where can you get the money for medicine?
Wang Ergou's parents can't stand it anymore, Xiaotian is also the blood of the Wang family, so is it possible that his grandson will die of illness?But Wang Ergou was in a state of rage, and Wang Ergou's parents didn't dare to say that they took out the money, and they couldn't stop it. Only Uncle Wang protected Xiaotian and was beaten up.
But Oda was cold and frightened, so he couldn't lie down on the bed.
Uncle Wang really wanted to die during this time. He went to wash clothes by the river and met Gu Shulang. After saying those words, Uncle Wang smiled wryly in his heart. The money is always given out...
Yesterday was Qingming. Uncle Wang went to burn the paper early in the morning. When he came back, he saw Wang Ergou was about to go out. I went to Shili Village and said I’ll come back today, look at it when it’s dark at night, don’t let him walk at night during Qingming, don’t be lazy, or be careful when he comes back and beats you.”
Uncle Wang could only agree.
As soon as it got dark, Uncle Wang looked around outside the village entrance and said he didn't see anyone.This kind of situation also happens. When Wang Ergou left, he said that he would come back that day, and sometimes he would not touch the house after playing for a few days. Wang Ergou's parents thought that they might not come back today. , Let Ergou hang around outside all day.
Wang Xuemu had a straight face, her parents-in-law did not avoid him when she spoke, she was not afraid that he would hear her, she even spoke loudly on purpose, he was used to it, boiled hot water to scrub his son, saw that his son's face was still red and swollen, he couldn't cry at all, tears It has drained.
If it wasn't for Xiaotian, he would have wished to die.
Not long after lying down, Wang Xue couldn't fall asleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, Wang Ergou kicked the door angrily and beat him, saying why no one picked him up this time and asked him to walk at night.
Wang Xue was terrified of being beaten, so he put on his clothes and carried an oil lamp. He didn't light the oil lamp when he went out, because he was afraid of wasting oil.With the moonlight in the fields, you can walk in the dark, and it doesn’t hurt if you fall. If you catch someone, come back on time, and it’s even better if you don’t catch it.
The parents-in-law slept soundly in the house, and they would not wake up without a thunderbolt.
Wang Xue walked along the road to Shili Village from the entrance of the village, and there was a figure on the dark ridge of the field, humming and cursing at someone, Wang Xue couldn't forget it even after he died, it was the sound of Wang Ergou who was drunk.
He was hesitating whether to go up or not, when he saw the shadow fall and roll into the paddy field.
Wang Xue ran over in a hurry, stood on the ridge of the field and watched Wang Ergou paw and pull in the paddy field. Wang Ergou, who is usually tall and tall, would be so drunk that he didn't even have the strength to stand up, and was choked by the paddy field. It's a cough.
If one day I fell down while walking, in this weather, I am afraid that I will fall down in the paddy field, and I will be gone that night...
Wang Xue's outstretched arm stopped in the air, and Gu Shulang's words instantly came to mind. If Wang Ergou was gone, wouldn't it mean that no one would beat his son, no one would ask him for money, no one would beat him?
Wang Xue looked at Wang Ergou in the paddy field, and stood there for a few seconds in a daze. She seemed to have realized it, and quickly ran back with the oil lamp. He ran so fast that he fell down, and his trousers and clothes were covered in mud.
After returning to the yard and closing the door, Wang Xue became afraid, and the more she thought about it, the more afraid she became.
If Wang Ergou didn't die, if Wang Ergou saw him, did Wang Ergou call him by name when he ran away?If anyone in the village sees it.
Worried, Wang Xue took off her muddy clothes and soaked them in water, and entered the house in unlined clothes.The snoring in the parents-in-law's room was loud, but they didn't wake them up. Wang Xue gently opened the door of the inner room and put on the oil lamp. His son Xiaotian opened his eyes in a daze and asked Dad where you were.
"I just went to get up at night and fell down."
Xiaotian struggled to get up, but Wang Xue felt calm now, and laid her son back down, saying, "Father is fine, you continue to sleep, but the clothes are dirty."
If Wang Ergou is not dead, then kill him.
This time, Wang Xue slept soundly. The next morning, it was raining lightly again. His underwear was still soaked, so he could only wear unlined clothes. Someone knocked on the door outside the yard, and Wang Xue's heart was also pounding. , opened the door, Zhang Zhuzi's big cow said: "Your dog Wang Ergou died in my field."
After that, the parents-in-law didn't believe it and went to the field to identify the corpse.Wang Xue had a white face, the cold wind was blowing, and the rain was drenching. He couldn't tell what it was like. He had been afraid for so many years. If Wang Ergou said a word loudly, he would tremble with fright. Wang Ergou died.
really dead.
"It was Wang Xue, it was Wang Xue who killed my second dog." The mother-in-law came up to beat him.
Wang Xue stood still. He was the one who killed her. He didn't extend his hand to help her, but he didn't regret it.
After listening to what Aunt Wang Ergou said, the villagers didn't know that your Ergou went out to gamble and didn't come back for several days in a row.Could it be that Uncle Wang was really asked to stay here in the field all night and wait?
This Wang Ergou's parents are too mean, they ruined Uncle Wang like this.
"I went there at night, but I didn't see it." Wang Xue murmured.
It’s still gone and I didn’t see it. If Wang Ergou’s parents really love their son, why don’t they go to the field and wait by themselves?
The procrastination and noise continued, Uncle Wang lay on his side on the kang, letting his in-laws cry and scold, during which time his mother-in-law came in and asked him for money for the funeral.
"There's no money, no money, mother, otherwise Ergou wouldn't beat Xiaotian and beat me, and you still got the money for Xiaotian's medicine."
Aunt Wang Ergou scolded. She felt so sad that she didn't know who to scold, so she had to catch Wang Xue to scold.
Lost door star, unlucky...
Those who came from the village outside to help with the funeral shook their heads. This Wang Ergou is too much of a bully. If it hadn't been for Uncle Wang's support these years, this family would have been bet by Wang Ergou without even a single tile.
"Xiaotian, why are you washing clothes here?" the village aunt asked when she saw her.Hey, sorry to see you, there are still slap prints on Xiaotian's face. If Uncle Wang has money, he will assign it to him, and he didn't bring Wang Ergou to touch Xiaotian.
It can be seen that it was really hollowed out.
On the contrary, the old woman said that Uncle Wang was in charge of the money in the family. Every time Wang Ergou asked for money, Uncle Wang wanted it. As a result, it was kept secretly, and she neither farmed nor made tofu. I picked out what I had saved from Uncle Wang.
Oda: "My father went to look for my father last night, and he fell down when he came back. His arm hurts so I have to wash it."
"You are so sensible and filial, good boy, Auntie will wash it."
"Auntie, I've already washed it, but I just can't wring it out."
"Your little arms and legs don't have any strength, of course you can't twist them dry, come to Auntie to twist them."
……
The village held a funeral, and the coffin was suspended for three days before being buried in the ground.In the past three days, the village opened its eyes to see that Wang Ergou was murdered by ghosts, or how Aunt Wang Ergou was mean to Uncle Wang, and Uncle Wang was scolded when he fell ill. Water leaks, rainwater hitting Wang Ergou's tablet, all of these can be treated as tricks.
It is said that Wang Ergou did evil in his lifetime, and God does not want him to lie in the mourning hall peacefully after death.Otherwise, why did it disappear on the night of Qingming Festival?This person can't be idle, beat his wife and children, God will not see it.
Of course, the last sentence is said a lot by the women in the village. There is no stumbling block in the family. Sometimes they have to fight when they quarrel. Of course, those who have been beaten are not happy. God.
Adding to the farce for Wang Ergou's death was Tian's demand for compensation from the Wang family.
The Tian family made a big fuss in Wang Ergou's mourning hall. They insisted on paying compensation or they would not leave, saying that Wang Ergou soaked her paddy fields all night, which was bad luck. Could it be that your son is justified in spending my fertile fields for nothing?
When Gu Zhao heard this, he almost burst out laughing.
This is not a hot spring.
"Did you give it in the end?" Li Zhouzhou asked Brother Xing.
Brother Xing patted his legs happily, and said: "Yes, Wang Ergou's mother will not give it. Zhang's family will not leave if he refuses to give it. He is crying for her paddy fields in the mourning hall. Do you think this is for Wang Ergou? The mourning hall was set up for the paddy fields of the Zhang family..."
"Give me [-] Wen and send it away."
Although the money is small, but fortunately there is.Tian not only took the money, but also bought some yellow paper joss sticks from the mourning hall, and burned them in the paddy field of her house where the dead people were, and inserted the incense, saying that God opened his eyes, and the bad things were done by Wang Ergou. If your ancestors ate the incense, they would go back to the ground.
After Tian's worship, Wang Ergou was buried the next day. After ten days of light rain, it finally stopped, and the sun came out, which was very sunny.
Now the village believed that Wang Ergou was locked up by the ghost ancestor who came back to visit in Qingming.
Whoever made Wang Ergou's mouth dirty, scolding everyone he saw, must have collided.
No one in the village believes Wang Ergou's mother when she said that Uncle Wang killed her son.
"..." Wang Ergou swallowed back his motherly curse.
The two old people also started to believe, otherwise why is it so small, and the rain leaked on the memorial tablet, and the sun came out of the funeral.
After the funeral was over, Xiao Tian walked in front of the grave wearing a sackcloth and wearing a filial piety holding a clay basin. The basin fell in front of the grave, and Wang Ergou's parents cried out for my son, my poor son. Oda Mu knelt down and couldn't cry. Uncle Wang cried a bit.
But it sounds like Tian's mourning routine, there are no tears, but there is a voice.
When attending funerals, the villagers also said that Uncle Wang was too sad, he is really kind.The word 'good', Gu Zhao heard, might mean Uncle Wang's holy father's meaning.
People in the village like to gossip, the parents of the east and the family of the west are short-sighted, you obviously take advantage of it, and if you don’t pay attention, you will become unreasonable—unless you are as shameless as Tian’s, and the three adult men of the Zhang family can stand up and be a deterrent .
Otherwise, Tian wouldn't dare to make such a fuss.
In the village, it depends on who has more families, more land, and more strong men.In the past, Zhou Zhou in his family had had enough of people behind their backs gossiping about their tongues, but these people laughed behind their backs and dared not bring it in front of the Li family father and son because the father and son were very strong.
Speaking of Uncle Wang, when Wang Ergou was alive, everyone in the village knew that he was not a thing, but no one dared to provoke him, because Wang Ergou was born tall, and no one cared about him.Now that Wang Ergou is dead, there is only an elderly father-in-law with inflexible arms, a mother-in-law who drinks medicine all the year round, and Xiao Tian, who is thin and small with a medicine jar, in the Wang family's house.
Uncle Wang, if he is as aggressive as Tian's, he will be at a disadvantage.
Sometimes showing weakness is not really showing weakness. Just look at this time, Uncle Wang didn’t pay a penny. He lay in the house for a day, struggled to get up the next day to talk about work, and was persuaded by the aunt in the village to go back and rest. , Lost a good reputation.
His parents-in-law have been gobbled up by the village behind their backs.
Now that Uncle Wang has become a widow, the village must avoid it, so as not to get the reputation of bullying orphans and widows.
The death of Wang Ergou finally came to an end in the middle of the feast.
The weather is getting hotter, the ground can be planted within two days, and there is no more mud. It just so happens that the manure piled by Li's family has also healed, and the days of fertilizing have begun again.Naturally, when the villagers saw it, they laughed again, saying that it had been raining for ten days, so why is there still Xishui?Not afraid of drowning?
Even Brother Xing also kindly persuaded Li Zhouzhou, you should just listen to your husband-in-law, why don't you listen to the crops?Hurry up and stop messing around, and advise uncle.
Li Zhouzhou received Brother Xing's kindness, and then he and his father continued to bear fat.
After composting the ten acres of dry land, it's time to transplant rice seedlings.
Throughout March and April, the three members of Li's family didn't stop much.
At the end of April, the village finally changed their jackets and began to wear unlined clothes. Li Zhouzhou began to disassemble and wash them. For example, the quilted clothes are not easy to put in the water directly. After washing the cotton, they will not be warm. It is like washing a thick cotton quilt in winter. The face is removed, and the inside is covered with a cotton net covered with cotton thread, which has been dried. After the face is dried, it is re-sewn.
The same goes for clothes.
Li Zhouzhou dismantled the jackets of the three people in his family, washed the cotton and dried them in the sun, put them back together and sewed them up, and then folded them up and put them in the suitcase. That's it.
The single clothes are light and thin, and it is convenient to do things.At home, Gu Zhao likes to wear the bunts his wife wore during adolescence.
"Sanggong, have you grown taller?" Li Zhouzhou looked at Xianggong's tight clothes.
Gu Zhao moved his arms. His clothes were brittle, but when he raised his hand, his armpit cracked open.
"I wore your 15-year-old clothes last winter. This set was put together with the cotton padded clothes. You said they were all worn by 15-year-old..."
Gu Zhao grew taller, and his frame stretched out.
Li Zhouzhou was 15 meters tall at the age of 1.7, but he was small in frame and tall and thin.Years ago, when Gu Zhao wore Li Zhouzhou's 15-year-old cotton padded jacket, it was still a little loose, and the trouser legs were a little long, so they were as wide as two or three fingers.
Gu Zhao looked at the door frame at Gu's house, and his height was about 1.7 meters three or seven four. Because he was thin and frail, he looked smaller.
In the new year, Gu Zhao is 17 years old, and his birthday is in the first lunar month.
This winter, Li's family is full of bone soup, and Gu Zhao is not like the original body who does not work. After a winter, he usually wears jackets that don't show much, but now he puts on unlined clothes, and his body suddenly becomes taller and more generous.
"I've really grown taller." Gu Zhao happily stood next to his wife, the effect was relatively small, invisible to the naked eye, maybe two centimeters?
That is also 1.7 meters six, seven seven.
According to the modern age of 1.8 meters [-] when he was a junior, it is still possible to make a dash!
Li Zhouzhou was also happy, his husband was taller, his body was stronger, he was still beautiful, and he was a little more angry.Unlike before, some people in the village said that Xianggong was weak, like another medicine jar.
Xianggong is not it!
The wheat in the field looks different every day. Peasants go to the field every day to look around to feel at ease. In the middle of May, the wheat fields are lush green, the wheat calves are high, and the ears of wheat grow fast.
When Li Da fertilized the fields, he didn't have much hope at that time. Anyway, if the farmers don't work on the fields, there is no harm, and there is no harm in wasting effort.But as he went to the field day by day, especially when the ears of wheat were knotted, he knew the difference when he touched it with his hands.
Unlike the wheat ears of previous years, this year's wheat ears should be tight and dense.
Li Da didn't dare to show his face, and kept guessing in his heart, but as the days passed, the crops in the field were growing brightly, and they couldn't cover them up. Look out.
"Li Da, the land of your house is lush green, and the tassels are heavy. They grow well."
"It's different from other places at a glance."
The villagers noticed that Li Da couldn't keep a low profile, so he could only wave his hands and say, "I forgot about my family's fertilizer? I haven't fed the food yet, so I don't know what's going on."
That's true, maybe it looks good, there are many empty shells of wheat ears, and it's not uncommon.
I thought so, but some people still murmured: Is that Xishui really useful?
Whether there is any need to wait for the harvest to know.
Every household in the village has to pay taxes. After the harvest, the husks are bagged and weighed. No one dares to lie about it.
Who knows whether the crops in the field are good or bad.
Last year there was enough snow and water in the winter, and it rained a few more times in spring. The crops in every household are growing well. Although the fields of Li’s family are indeed outstanding, many people think that they are growing well. With the Xishui, where can they be fertilized? , Is it possible that the harvest can still be ten fights behind them?
It is estimated that there are more than one or two buckets.
A bucket of twenty catties, ten buckets of two hundred catties.
Before the harvest, no one believed that the fields of the Li family could be doubled per acre, even Li Da himself did not believe it.
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