Master Duan didn't feel much in his heart. He worked hard to make his two sons feel better in the future, without having to look at the face of the old house. After he closed his eyes, even if the old mansion didn't help them, they could leave some money in their hands, so they wouldn't starve to death. But now it seems that Haofang is okay, but the eldest son of Haoping is the bigger and the more he is not in harmony with them.
Master Duan regretted that he shouldn't have left Duan Haoping in the old house along with the old lady. It's just that he was thinking that his family had moved out at the time. I was afraid that this family would be taken up by the second master and one room, leaving a Haoping here to earn something for them. Who knows how this child grew up like this? He didn't even get close to his parents, only his second uncle was in his eyes.
Master Duan thought about it, after the third shift, Duan Zhangshi had already started snoring. He fell asleep in a daze, and when he turned around, he let Haofang hurry to the south, and let him live in the old house, I'm afraid he would be like his elder brother.
The second wife’s yard looked different. The two couples were still not asleep more than half of the time, and they were talking in the room with the light on.
The second wife sat in front of the dressing table and looked at her jewelry over and over again, holding a pair of tired gold bracelets and sighed: "Oh, it's all old things from a few years ago. How can I wear them during the Chinese New Year."
The second master was sitting cross-legged on the kang with the money box in his hands, holding piles of bank notes and bank notes. Hearing this, he only threw it over and said: "What if there is a new one? You don't wear it."
The second lady slipped to the second master with her skirt, her eyes were shining and she looked at his money box, and she reached out and picked up a fifty-two taels of silver slip and said, "Why don't you give me some fresh jewelry for the New Year? what."
The second master didn't get angry when she saw that she was holding the ticket. He just smiled and said, "You take it and don't hide it. Hurry up and find a chance to change the money and put it back. Otherwise, the money will become less and less."
The second wife smiled and said, "Why don't I know? I was so distressed last time, and it took nearly two percent of the money to cash it out!"
The second master said amused: "Who let you hide at home like a baby?"
The second lady gave him a sip, stood up and locked the silver bills into the jewelry box, then sat back and looked at the stack of bills in the second master's money box and said, "Is this going to be thousands?"
The second master shook his head and said: "Not that much, I'm afraid that there will be only a few hundred taels left in the end. Let's see how much money the eldest brother can bring back this year. The old lady wants to do a big deal this time. She is getting older. Spending more and more money, I heard that I wanted everything. Last time, the Taoist said that a strange stone was dug from Yiling Mountain, it was immortal, and it could prolong life in the house. She had to do it, and finally donated money to make merit. I bought ninety-nine gold anemones, and it took a few taels of silver to give away the Taoist priest!"
The second wife snorted coldly: "The old thing is afraid of death! For so many years, she has done so many evil things with her family, but now she is so frightened! It's all our money! Pooh!"
The second master glared at her and hissed: "Be quiet!" Hooking his head to look outside, he turned around and said to her: "How many years will she have? You have to be patient. Wait for the old lady to breathe." So, let's move out, can't we? Just let her stay there and watch the house, so that she won't be pleasing to you all day long." He raised his chin and pointed to the yard on the other side to persuade her.
The second wife squinted her eyes and smiled and said, "She is the number one fool! The old lady is unwilling, so she just secretly takes her son to find her eldest brother? Just coax her own man and stay away from the old lady. I can’t do anything with her? The eldest brother came back to pick her up, but she refused to follow and persuaded the eldest brother to come back. A fool! Going to the south to make more money without having to wait for the old lady, she refused to do it! If she doesn’t come back, she finds me to give up her anger every day, and it's not that I didn't let her go!"
The second master sighed: "It would be good if the old lady let me go. At this moment, our family doesn't know how much money is made. Why is the big brother taking all the good things? Really!"
The second wife hurriedly said: "Now even the people from the third brother's side are running to the south. The old lady says that she hurts you every day, but she just won't let you go!"
The second master patted her hand and said, "It's better that you treat me well."
The second wife smiled proudly: "That's natural! The old lady has so many sons, and you are not the eldest one. How could she take you to heart?"
The two held each other for a while, and the second wife said: "Today Duan Haofang also took his little daughter-in-law "wife" into Tao Huayuan. Tomorrow the third wife and her uneasy eldest daughter-in-law "wife" will be able to take Wu Lingbao called over, and I think it will be lively tomorrow!" While talking, he laughed while covering his mouth. After the laugh, he stabbed the second master and said: "It is really useful for you to let me do this? Can the Sanfang really fight?"
The second master shook his head and smiled triumphantly: "You don't understand, right? Duan Haofang is not a good thing! Let him go to the south to send a letter to the eldest brother and father! He is afraid that he is not sincere. You have to follow Sanfang!"
The second wife said, "That is! In the future, all the things in the third room will be reserved for Duan Haoping. What benefit can he have a second son? If you don't take advantage of the present, it will be impossible for you to live on the dowry of the daughter-in-law in the future. "She really admires Duan Haofang, this child, this is the man who has the ability, then the little girl of the Wu family is lucky, the only good seedling in the third generation of the Duan family made her hold her back.
The second master sighed. This woman just loves to rely on her parents when looking at things, and said: "No matter how much money Duan Haofang makes, it has nothing to do with the third child's family! That stinky boy will definitely not take the big head home! He would only take it. It was to carry the dowry for others! Patronize and watch the excitement! In the end, when the old couple kicked their legs, Duan Haoping put all the family's money in his pocket! He won't even have any chicken feathers left!"
The second wife rolled her eyes: "You think I don’t know? Look at the head of the little girl from the Wu family? I don’t believe that her mother’s family would be so good to a girl who goes out! She is from someone else’s family. Why did she spend so much effort on doing the dowry? Just like the third daughter-in-law "women", they believe that they are all things in the dowry! Bah! Has she ever seen what is in the dowry box? In my opinion, it is a paragraph. Haofang brought it back from the south, and he gave the money to the little girl. The little girl couldn't keep the door secretly spent on her own gold stuff!" The second wife was also a little greedy, and she also had a lot of good things. There are several unopened boxes of the clothes that I wear on my head and are piled in the back. But she didn't dare to wear it. The old lady was sitting there. If the clothes were better than hers, she would be suspicious! The second wife is the most uncomfortable with the old lady. If anyone in the family wears a little better than her, she thinks this person has stolen her money! As a result, no one in the family can be brighter than an old lady.
The second wife regrets her good clothes occasionally, she closes the door and looks beautiful in the house, and she has to change it when she goes out. The eldest wife really doesn’t have much money there, and the eldest doesn’t come back. Her son is still at home and he’s still studying at home. The old lady is afraid that she will run away with him, so she won’t give her more money every month. She was a careful person who was used to eat it. As a result, almost all the clothes used by the old lady were leftover by the old lady. For several times, the second lady felt that the old lady and the old lady were sitting together and watched. He looks like an old man.
She always felt that she was the first one in this family, but the third daughter-in-law "wife" took the girl from the Wu family and dumped her for several blocks!
Young is not fake, his small face is chubby, white and tender like a steamed bun, big eyes and small mouth, he wears a sturdy red dress and a gold collar, and his hair is black and shiny, "plugging" a shining golden hairpin. . No wonder Duan Haofang looked at her with distressed eyeballs like her distressed eyeballs, and looked at her several times a night.
The second wife likes and winks, why is such a girl hiding in the country yard? Her mother didn't know where the goddess was so skillful that she trained such a good daughter, and she just digs out a good cabbage core in the pit! If this kind of character and family background allowed her to meet earlier, it would be left to her Haofeng! Where is the turn to be snatched by the third child
The second master said, "Isn't that the way it is? I think the third son and the others can't control Haofang, let them live in the old house, this Haofang and his parents' hearts are farther apart. Then Haoping is not the same. People with a wide heart always love to be careful. If he sees his brother also move here, the yard is bigger than his, do you think he will not make trouble? By then, life in the three rooms will be difficult. Hahahahaha!"
The second lady leaned on the shoulders of the second master and flattered: "Our master knows clearly in his heart! Anyway, they won’t live long in this old mansion when they make a fuss by themselves, and then coax the old lady to drive them out. That's it!"
After returning to Taohuayuan, the second sister asked Honghua to make a bowl of noodles for herself. She was starving to death. During the meal, she waited for the old lady at the beginning, and later it was her turn to eat, and let Duan Zhangshi rush to wait on the old lady. Later, she saw that the dishes on the table were all leftovers, and she didn't want to eat it, so she waited to come back to eat.
Duan Haofang was extremely surprised to see that she was still eating at this time. Just moved over, there was nothing under the stove, or they brought some pickles and steamed buns on the road. When the second sister ate a bowl of white noodles with pickles, his eyes went round and he waited to clean up. After he let the girl go out and went to the kang, he pulled the second sister and asked: "You didn't eat with the old lady just now?"
The second sister pouted her lips: "I didn't take my turn." Being a daughter-in-law and being a girl are really two different things!
Duan Haofang "touched" the second sister's hair without chanting for a long time. After a while, he remembered something and asked her: "Why did I watch you pull out the hairpin while eating?"
The second sister learned the words of the eldest wife all over, and said, "What should I do tomorrow? That hairpin is the smallest one. Should I take the silver one and charge it up first?"
Duan Haofang trembled with anger, and said angrily: "Ignore her! Just wear yours! What do you think of wearing silver for the Chinese New Year? We have gold, so let's wear gold!"
The second sister leaned in his arms and whispered: "Well, let's talk about it after this year. It's not a big deal. I can wear silver."
Duan Haofang hugged the second sister and said nothing, "I'm wronged you."
The second sister smiled and said, "What is wrong about this? She is an elder, and what she said makes sense. It's better to live hard and thrifty. If I'm a careless person in the future, you should worry about it."
Duan Haofang knew that the second sister was making him happy, and raised her chin to kiss him: "What do I have to worry about? We have money, just spend it. You can make money if you spend me, if you even buy the money for your wife to buy rouge gouache I can't make any money, am I still a man?"
The second sister felt comfortable hearing what he said, and smirked into his arms. Duan Haofang took her hand and smiled and said, "My daughter-in-law, "women" miss a man? Let your man give you some sweetness and taste..." As he said, he leaned down and got into the quilt together.
In the past few days and nights, the two of them often played like this. The second sister bit his underwear collar and shivered, and her whole body clung to him like a bridge, with a sweet and greasy hum in her nose, her neck raised high and topped. Rubbing hard at the base of his neck.
Duan Haofang made her rub up and burst into flames, and panted against her ears: "Goodbye, why doesn't your hand move? It just made me work hard?"
The second sister got up early the next morning and put on clothes. Duan Haofang woke up and found that she was standing on the ground without asking people or putting on clothes. He quickly jumped off the kang and hugged her and returned to her to wrap her in a quilt. , "Touching" her cold hands and feet angrily: "What are you going to do to make a bad girl? It's so cold and you are standing outside without wearing anything, wanting to get sick!"
The second sister smiled timidly, pressed her into his arms and blinked at him.
Duan Haofang went out even if he was so angry, he put his arms around her and turned his head to look at the window. It was very early to see the sky and said, "What are you doing when you get up so early?"
The second sister looked at the window strangely, and asked, "It's still early? Don't you want to change your clothes and go to the old lady, please good morning?"
Duan Haofang smiled and dragged her back into the quilt and said, "Don't worry, go to bed again. You don't have to get up until lunch. The old lady doesn't wake up so early."
The second sister obediently followed him back to the quilt and heard him say: "The old lady can't sleep at night and doesn't get up in the morning. It's like this every year when we come back for the New Year. When we have lunch, she just woke up. "
The second sister nodded and said, "Then what do you have to do these days?"
Duan Haofang "touched" his chin and said, "It's okay. There will be more people coming these days, but nothing is wrong with you. The second wife and the older wife won't tell you to pass, so they won't treat this kind of thing. "The good thing about "showing" your face is for you, the newly married daughter-in-law, "women." He smiled and twisted his second sister's small chin.
The second sister smiled and said, "Who is rare?"
Seeing her clever look, Duan Haofang did not love her enough. He hugged and gnawed for a while before saying: "Our second sister is not rare, but those people are rare." He laughed for a while and said, "This If no one asks you for a few months, don’t go out. If someone asks you to find your mother first, it will be better to hide from her. The second wife and the eldest wife just want to uphold you, and they don’t want to do it in front of your mother. Just pretend you don’t understand what you say, and push the matter on me."
The second sister laughed while holding Duan Haofang's face and sighed: "That will make our second master tired. What can I do if I am tired? Who can compensate me for a second master?"
Duan Haofang smiled and cursed and kissed him: "Little daughter-in-law's "women" has done something bad again! Take your second master to joke! See if I won't teach you!"
The second sister dodged from the left to the right and repeatedly begged for mercy. The two in the room were making each other, and the red flower outside through the curtain said: "Second Lord, my wife is looking for you over there."
Duan Haofang promised to let Honghua in, and he hugged the second sister and kissed her eloquently and said: "Mother is looking for me, I'm afraid I should go out with Dad in a while. If my mother calls you, you go over again, if she doesn't Scream, just sit in the room and don't go anywhere. If you feel bored, let the red flower accompany you to wipe the cards and wait for me to come back."
He was talking here, the red flower came in with hot water, and waited for him to be neatly dressed, the second sister jumped down and tied him with a belt and jade.
Duan Haofang put her back, holding her back, and said with a smile: "Safflower looks at your "milk" and "milk"! See who is uncomfortable when you look back!"
The second sister pulled him by the sleeves and pulled him down, lying on his ears and humming softly: "If I'm sick, you won't be uncomfortable? Don't you feel badly?"
Duan Haofang made her feel itchy again, and she wanted to scratch her hands. The second sister rolled into the kang, wrapped her quilt and waved her hand and smiled: "Why don't you go? Be careful when you look back and scold you in a hurry!"
Until Duan Haofang went out, his heart was throbbing and thumping, and he whispered in his heart: The little daughter-in-law "women" is waiting! Let you look good tonight!
Master Duan followed the second master to welcome guests outside every day, and Duan Haoshou of the grand master's house was also standing beside him. Normally, he was not called to him if there was something at home, but he, the eldest grandson of the house, would come out and show his face after the Chinese New Year.
Duan Haoping and Duan Haofang also brought gifts to various homes to visit their early years. Grandpa Duan was not at home, and there were not many guests at home during the New Year, so most of them went to other people's homes to pay New Year's greetings. The old lady also invited guests every day and asked the second wife to invite tricksters to come to the house to have fun. The second sister talked and played cards with the old lady's house every day, and when she returned to the house, she was so tired that she didn't even want to talk. Because it is the generation of grandchildren and daughters-in-law, so when the wives are sitting there, there is no seat for her. Those people have heard that she is a child of the landlord’s family, and they especially like to ask her to talk and ask the country. What's it like? I heard that chickens and everything are eaten in the same pot and sleep in the same room, right? I heard that there is nothing on the floor in that house, right? Isn't that all soil? He laughed and asked which matchmaker she used, why did she climb into Duan Haofang's marriage
A wife with the surname Xie covered her mouth and smiled: "I've long been optimistic about the kid Haofang, and I plan to ration it to my girl! Who knows but I haven't seen it in a few years but let you take it! It's really!" All laughed.
The second elder sister stood in the group of wives who were laughing forward and backward and told them to let them laugh, but she just lowered her head and said nothing.
She could only go back to the house to sleep for a while after the third shift in the evening, but Haofang hadn't come back during that time, and was drinking with Master Duan and the guests outside. By the time she slept, she hadn’t seen Duan Haofang. When she woke up in the morning, she saw the two sleeping together in a blanket. They slept at noon and got up and cleaned up before going out separately. One went to the old lady, and the other followed Master Duan. When going out, Duan Haofang always remembered to ask her to go out after eating.
Early this morning, just after dawn, there was not a single person on the street. The door of the Duan's old house just opened, and a member of the Duan's family came out of the door carrying a big broom and yawning. Some of them started to draw on the ground with the big broom.
The water began to freeze a few days ago, and it is getting colder and colder. Standing on the street side with a large broomstick, the servant shivered and woke up from the cold for a while.
At this time, seven or eight donkey carts came slowly across the street, followed by rack carts full of large boxes, and in front were two tightly packed sedan chairs in front and one back.