"That's right, that's right, brother Huzi can harvest millet with brother Tuesday and brother Wednesday, do you think he will harvest millet with brother Dazhen and the others?"
Zhou Dazhen, who was also lying on the wall to watch the excitement, jumped down when he heard the words, ran over to grab the kid and dragged him down to shoot, "What are you talking about..."
Zhou Dazhen and Zhou Hu are cousins. In the whole village, they are the closest relatives in terms of blood relationship. However, because of the unhappiness when the family was separated in the previous generation, the two families have not seen each other for many years, and their relationship is not as good as that of ordinary relatives.
Every year, Zhou Hu and Tuesday Lang and Wednesday Lang go to the fields together to sow and transplant rice seedlings and harvest rice, but they just don't go with Zhou Dazhen's family.
So in the countryside, sometimes friendship is more effective than blood.
The boss of the Zhang family stepped forward and forced the two families to divorce. Bai Shan personally drafted the divorce letter, Zhou Dalang signed it on behalf of the Zhou family, and Zhang Sanlang had to sign under the eyes of the Zhang family boss.
Unless they have the guts to leave the clan, they really have to listen to the clan in this matter.
The divorce letter was in duplicate, Bai Shan handed one to the Zhang family and the other to Zhou Dalang, and the matter was settled.
The old Zhou Tou, who had been silent all this time, finally said: "Since everyone is here, let's go back after lunch..."
He turned his head to call Xiaoqian, "Take your siblings to prepare meals."
"yes."
The elders of Zhang's family didn't refuse, so Zhang Sanlang sat down on the stool angrily, turning his head away from looking at them.
As for the other people in Zhang's family, Zhou Jin had little contact with them, and naturally he didn't have many grievances, so old Zhou Tou could still face them peacefully.
But for Zhang Sanlang and his cousins, his expression is not very good.
Seriously speaking, there is actually no big conflict between the two families. It is all accumulated by some trivial matters, but it is these trivial matters that kill each other's feelings.
Mother's uncle is older, but Man Bao's current relationship with Zhou's family can be seen from the relationship between Zhou's family and Qian's family, how good their relationship with his uncle's family can be seen.
But it is very difficult for Lao Zhou to have feelings for Zhang's family. This contradiction can be traced back to his childhood.
Now that the relationship is broken, he doesn't feel very happy, but he doesn't necessarily feel sad. He just feels a little sad. He sits on the stool for a long time before recovering. When he recovered, he saw Man Bao sitting beside him, and he muttered: "You How old are you, and I don’t know how to help your sister-in-law, so hurry up and help in the kitchen, there are too many guests today.”
"Oh," Zhou Man replied, but didn't get up, and looked at him with his chin propped up, "Father, are you sad?"
"It's not enough to be sad," old Zhou Tou sighed, "It's just that your grandma might be sad."
Zhou Man: "No, it's for the good of me and Lizhong. I'm grandma's granddaughter, and Lizhong and the others are also great-grandchildren, aren't they closer than my nephews?"
Old Zhou didn't speak.
Zhou Man: "You have to be really sorry, or take some wine and food to see grandma at night, and burn some paper money, burn more, and let grandma send some to great-grandfather and the others underground, so she will definitely be happy. "
After thinking about it, old Zhou felt that it made sense, "Yes, I'll prepare paper money."
Old Zhou got up and urged Zhou Man, "Go and help out in the kitchen, the elders of our family are also here, don't be too lazy." It's good to show off.
"Oh," Zhou Man got up and went to the kitchen, only to be pushed out by Feng when he entered the door, "Grandma, what are you doing here? People from Zhang's family came too early today, and there is nothing to eat in the kitchen. If you are hungry, go back first." Pad the Bai family and come back later."
"Second sister-in-law, let me help."
Feng looked at her in surprise, "You? Help?"
Zhou Man coughed lightly, looked back, and motioned Feng Shi to look.
Feng's probe looked out and saw that the elders of the two families had gathered together to have a good conversation, so she understood, glanced in the kitchen and said: "I don't know what you can do, you go to find sister-in-law Bar."
Xiaoqian said: "Wait, the elders of the clan went out early, and they must be hungry by now. I steamed glutinous rice in the morning, and I will make rice balls for you in a while. You take out the rice balls to fill everyone's stomachs."
Zhou Man's eyes lit up, and he immediately leaned forward, "Sister-in-law, why did you remember to make rice balls?"
Xiaoqian said helplessly: "It's not that they were raised by the family. Before, in the capital, the in-laws often brought snacks over, and the family would also buy snacks from outside. They came and went twice a day. In addition to three meals a day, they also had some snacks."
"Now that I'm back in the village, there's no dim sum here. A group of children come and go every day to find something to eat. They can't make dim sum, so I plan to make some rice balls for them."
"The rice ball is good, the rice ball is good." Zhou Man swallowed his saliva thinking about the deliciousness of the rice ball and asked, "What do you want?"
Xiaoqian couldn't help laughing, and said in a low voice, "I rubbed the bacon and minced meat for you, and everyone else just added a little sugar."
Zhou Man ran out to find Bai Shan and Yin He, "My sister-in-law wants to make rice balls, what flavor do you eat?"
Bai Shan: "I want bacon."
Yin hesitated, "Fantuan?"
Zhou Man directly made the decision for him, "I'll get you a piece of minced meat and a piece of sugar. You don't want to eat too much bacon, lest you lose weight."
Seeing Zhou Man turning around and running away, Yin Ju asked Bai Shan curiously, "Are the rice balls delicious?"
Bai Shan nodded.
"When I was in Qingzhou, I never saw Mrs. Zhou do it."
Bai Shan glanced at the Zhou family courtyard, and said with a smile: "At that time, there were few people eating, and there was a cook in the kitchen. My sister-in-law had enough time to cook other things, so naturally she wouldn't make rice balls."
Xiaoqian quickly rubbed out the rice balls, and Zhou Man took them out to treat the clan elders on both sides to eat, which was her work.
The elder of the Zhang family watched her enter the kitchen and came out with another plate, then turned to ask the elder of the Zhou family next to her, "Is that Zhou Yin's daughter?"
"Yes, it's her. You haven't seen her yet, have you?"
"Oh, I'm old, I haven't seen any young ones, let alone, I saw that she looks a bit like Zhou Yin."
An old Zhang family said: "Like her grandma."
An old man from the Zhou family who was drinking tea spit out the tea in his mouth and coughed violently. After a while, he rolled up his sleeves and wiped his mouth. Aunt, she is obviously like her great-grandmother."
"Why not? Doesn't that round face look like her grandma?"
"Like her mother!" The elder of the Zhou family absolutely refused to admit that Zhou Man was like Zhang Shi, and said, "Her mother also has a round face, and she is the daughter of a scholar, and she is also good at reading."
Who knows if it's great or not? Anyway, they can't be like the Zhang family, they would rather be like the Xia family!
"I heard that she is now an official? Can women be officials?"
"This is all news from many years ago. Now our Man Bao is not only an official, but also a princess."
"What is the princess?"
"Uh, it's the prince's daughter."
"What? Our family, Zhou Yincheng, has become a prince?" The boss of the Zhang family was shocked.
"No, no, I'll just say that, Zhou Yin is that Mianzhou shepherd, it hasn't changed."
The clan elders got together to exchange the news that they had never heard, while Zhou Man went to find Bai Shan and Yin Ru with a plate.
The two were already waiting in her boudoir.