Xu is a good season this year, and there are good harvests everywhere. At the beginning, Yue Dafu thought that he could save some money by selling food. The plan also fell through. On the contrary, the same food was sold, which was ten less than last year. With one-half of the money, Old Chen was so angry that he lay on the kang for several days and refused to get up.
This year is a good year, the pheasants and hares in the mountains are also fat, and there are more people eating game in the town than in previous years. You Jin can catch some pheasants and hares for money every time he goes to the market. The housekeepers who bought and bought from Zhaihou Kitchen are familiar with a lot. Every time they get mountain goods, they go to the city and send them to Xianweizhai, which saves You Jin a lot of trouble.
When the first snowfall of this winter fell, Young Jin had already saved seventeen taels of silver on the pheasant and hare. Seventeen taels of silver can buy less than three acres of fine farmland or build a few spacious mud-brick houses in Liutun Town.
But for You Jin, this is far from enough. She has to support six younger sisters, as well as the doll of Su's and Su's wombs who do not know the gender. Seventeen taels of silver may even be the cost of them leaving Yue's house to settle down. are not enough.
But now it has started to snow, and all the animals in the mountains have entered hibernation. It is not possible for her to go hunting and make money again, so she has to find another way out.
But when You Jin hadn't thought of a new way to make money, something happened to the Yue family.
Yue Changlu brought a potbellied woman back to Yue's house!
In the main room of the Yue family, Yue Changlu supported the young woman whose stomach was at least seven months old, and the two knelt together in front of Yue Dafu and the old Chen. Yue Changlu stammered and said: "Father, mother, the child in Wanniang's womb belongs to the son, the son can't let their mother and son suffer outside, please let the father and mother help us!"
Old Chen looked at Wan Niang, who was kneeling on the ground, looking enchanting and enchanting, her eyes were dark for a while, and she leaned back on the kang and did not speak. Rao Shiyue Dafu did not expect that his second son, who was so honest and chatty on weekdays, would stab a big basket and come out. He also frowned and sat cross-legged on the kang, smoking a dry cigarette. , for a while the main room was silent.
On the other side of the west wing, Young Jin, who first came out to add firewood to the kang, saw Yue Changlu lead a woman into the door, and then hurried back to the west wing to explain to Young Yin: "No matter what happens outside, don't come out, look. Mother, do you know?" As a result, the little girl didn't know what happened, but the third sister still listened obediently and nodded.
Seeing several girls nodding earnestly, Young Jin frowned and pursed his lips and went out. Before Sanjie went out, Xiaozhu felt a move in her heart for some reason, and followed her: "Sanjie, what happened?"
You Jin just went out, and when she saw her following again, she hurriedly pushed people into the house: "Go back quickly." Then she turned around and went to the backyard. Seeing the appearance of the third sister, Youzhu felt that something big happened at home, so she quietly followed behind You Jin and touched the window at the back of the main room.
Young Jin saw Young Pearl as soon as she turned around. She was afraid that her voice would be discovered by the people inside, so she had to wink to imply that she was not allowed to make a sound. Braving the snow, the sisters hid behind the main room and listened quietly. movement.
In the main room, Yue Dafu and Lao Chen were silent for a long time, and Yue Changlu knelt for a long time. It wasn't until the dry cigarettes in his hand were exhausted that Yue Dafu coughed twice and looked at Wan Niang who was kneeling beside Yue Changlu: "What do you like about my second child?"
Wan Niang opened her mouth and said in a soft and waxy tone: "I have known Brother Yue for more than a year, although Brother Yue is taciturn, he is sincere to me, I can't repay him, I can only repay him with my sincerity One or two, please let the old man fulfill our marriage!" Between the words, the sincerity and sincerity can be said to be touching.
"Did you know that the second child has already married?" Although Yue Dafu is not considered to have read countless people, she still has the ability to see people. She is a woman in her early twenties, and she looks like a three-pointed beauty. Why? Would you like to see the taciturn and disfigured second child
Wan Niang smiled guiltily: "I'm sorry Sister Su, but Brother Yue and I truly love each other. I don't ask for a name, I just ask your second elder to allow us to be together."
"Bah! Shameless fox!" When the old Chen heard what she said, she could not wait to jump up and peel her off: "I really don't ask for a name, why are you here today!"
If it wasn't for the wrong timing, Young Jin, who was eavesdropping outside the window, would almost have laughed out loud. This old Chen's ability to embarrass a woman is very powerful wherever she goes!
"Mother! I begged Wanniang to come back with me, I want to give her a name, don't blame Wanniang!" Yue Changlu steadily guarded Wanniang, who was pregnant with Liujia, behind him, blocking Lao Chen The upper of the shoe thrown over by Shi: "If you want to beat or scold, you can only blame me!"
With Yue Changlu's manly appearance, it was the first time that the sisters Young Jin and Young Zhu met each other. If it wasn't for the fact that this man was his father, and now begging his grandparents to allow Xiao San to enter the house, Young Jin would have to die for this pair. Yuanyang applauded. He gave Xiaozhu a look of "Don't be impatient". How could this drama be messed up before the show was over
Yue Dafu lit another cigarette, and after a few puffs, he said solemnly: "Second child, do you know, let alone our Yue clan, it's our Cuifeng Village and our common people's homes in eight villages and ten miles away. There is no precedent for concubinage!"
"Those rich and noble people take concubines. We, the peasant family, take concubines, and we can't laugh at the big teeth!" Old Chen glared at the Wan Niang, although she hated Su, but she hated the Wan Niang in front of her even more. Mother, I used to beat and scold the Su family, but the second child never stopped her. Now I just took a shoe upper and threw it over, and the second child stepped forward to stop her when she was useless. If she really let her in, the second child would still be able to listen to her words in the future
But that Yue Changlu didn't want to take a concubine, but wanted to marry a flat wife! To say that this Wan Niang really has some ability, she can actually make the cowardly and incompetent Yue Changlu dizzy, and she has to fight her parents head-on for her.
Kneeling on the ground, Yue Changlu glanced at Wan Niang, whose eyes were full of water, and said with courage, "I don't accept concubines, father, mother, I want to marry Wan Niang and enter the door as a courtesy."
"Ping wife!" Both Yue Dafu and the old Chen were taken aback, but they didn't expect their son to make such a request.
Before waiting for Yue Dafu to say anything, the old Chen Shi jumped out and objected: "Having a concubine has defiled the lintel of my Yue family, and I still want to be an equal wife, it is impossible!"
Although Old Chen would peck at people like a fighting cock, Wan Niang was not afraid because she had a trump card in her hand: she gently touched her eight-month-old belly and said softly, "Old man, old lady. , the day before yesterday, I asked the gynecological sage of Huichuntang to take a pulse, saying that my baby is probably a baby with a handle." She glanced at Yue Changlu softly, and said slowly: "If it wasn't for the sake of To give birth to a son who will inherit the lineage for Brother Yue, how can I still have the face to live!"
As soon as she heard that she was carrying a son in her womb, both Yue Dafu and Old Chen's eyes lit up, "Really a son?"
Yue Changlu hurriedly answered: "Really, father, mother, what Dr. Zhao from Huichuntang said is still true? Wanniang wants to give birth to her son, but the son really doesn't want to wrong her, so he asks his parents to do it. Son!" After saying that, he kowtowed heavily.
Yue Dafu sighed, the fact that the second child has never had a son is not only the second child's heart disease, but also his heart disease. Now suddenly a woman who is pregnant with the second child says that she has a son in her womb, why is he not happy? But when he thought of marrying a flat wife, it was a little difficult for Yue Dafu to nod his head. After all, it was not a trivial matter!
After thinking about it for a long time, it was not until the second roll of dry cigarettes was finished that Yue Dafu slowly said: "This matter is not something I can just say, ask your eldest brother and third brother for their opinions, as well as the Su family. On the other side, after all, if you enter the door, both of them will serve you."
"Hey!" Yue Changlu was relieved to hear his father, and kowtowed again happily. Old Chen pursed his lips and said angrily, "It's such a cold day, why don't you get up sooner?"
Outside the window, Young Jin and Young Pearl had a lot of snowflakes on their heads and bodies, but the chill brought by the snowflakes was not as cold as the chills brought by the two of them because of what Yue Changlu had done. I don't know how long it took until there was no voice in the main room, and Young Jin dragged the already numb Young Pearl quietly along the wall back to the west wing.
Young Yin and the others were anxiously waiting in the room, but they did not dare not to listen to the third sister. One or two did not know what happened, but they were all inexplicably flustered. They finally waited for Young Jin and Young Pearl to return, and they all stopped. Surrounded by: "third sister, what happened?"
Young Jin and Young Pearl both sat silently on the edge of the kang, looking serious and said nothing. This made Young Yin and the others even more panicked: "Sanjie, Xiaowu, what happened, you can talk about it! Don't talk to each of them, don't scare us!"
Xiaozhu's scarlet eyes stared straight at Xiaoyin, and then she suddenly pointed at Xiaoyin and cried, "You said that you can correct your mistakes! It's all a lie! Big liar!" In fact, Xiaozhu's heart Why don't you want to have a daddy who is kind and doesn't beat people? But the reality is so cruel, the little thought in Xiaozhu's heart that is most unknown has all been wiped out just now.
"Young Zhu!" Young Jin stopped Young Pearl's movements, and then shook her head at Young Yin, who was not sure why, "It's okay, she's just feeling uncomfortable, it'll be fine in a while."
Hearing the movement outside, Su Shi, who was on the inner kang, forced her seven-month-old stomach to get out of bed, and when she walked to the door of the room, she gasped for breath: "What's wrong with you? ?"
Seeing that the Su family came out, You Jin hurriedly helped the person back to the inner kang to lie down, and then said, "It's nothing, but You Zhu is just a little temperamental."
However, Mrs Su saw something wrong in Young Jin's eyes, and sighed: "What are you guys hiding from me?" As the so-called acquaintance of Mo Qiang's mother, how could Mrs Su fail to see something wrong with her
However, You Jin just shook his head: "It's all right, it's just that the little girl, You Zhu, has lost her temper. Mother, don't think too much about it, now is the time to raise the baby with peace of mind!" Although Su's pregnancy is only seven months, she is still in a hurry. Looking at the size of the full-term, the last time Dr. Ma came to see it, although I couldn't tell the gender, I still got two pulses, one strong and one weak. There can be no surprises.