There was still noise in the yard, and the two stood still. Waiting for the fifth sister and his wife to come closer, they plan to go in together.
Fifth Sister frowned slightly, "What is Third Sister-in-law arguing about?"
"Maybe it's none of your third sister-in-law's business." Li Qinghe whispered.
Standing at the door waiting for a while, I have pieced together most of the disputes between several people. It seems that Boss Zhou and the two are going to pick up their mother to live in the town. But Zhou's mother herself did not agree.
Then Zhang Haiyao quarreled with them.
Zhang Haiyao is not so much fighting for Zhou's mother, it is better to say that she found an excuse to quarrel with Zhou Boss and his wife, and revenge for Zhou Boss mocking her earlier.
Abandoning the boy and child and wanting to go to the county town, her father in the county town still won't let her go back. This matter cannot be mentioned in front of her. Just mention it and it will explode.
"Let's go in." Zhao Liyuan said, actually he was a little embarrassed, but this is the door, it would not be appropriate to turn around and leave.
As soon as a few people entered, the noise in the room stopped immediately. If Zhou Chengkang entered the door, the noise might be even worse. But Fifth Sister was different. She got married and brought her husband back. Zhao Liyuan was a guest to Zhou's family, if he talked badly and told his parents when he went back, Fifth Sister's identity would be embarrassing.
Zhang Haiyao responded the fastest, "Ah, Liyuan is here, I'll cook."
Mei also walked out with her head down, and Li Qinghe followed naturally.
The atmosphere in the kitchen was awkward. Speaking of the Zhou family's daughters-in-law, the Mei family has no natal family, and Zhang Haiyao's natal family is in the county town, so they can't go there on the first day of the junior high school, and they can't come back if they go. And Li Qingmiao was originally a recruiter, so after arriving, Li Qinghe was the only one who went back to her natal family.
Mrs. Mei looked at the yard and said in a low voice, "Fourth brother and sister, we were not arguing just now, mother should live with the boss, we live in the town to make money, so we can't move back just for mother's sake, right? "
Li Qinghe hummed.
Mei spread her hands, "But Mother is not willing to go."
"Actually, the second sister-in-law and the third sister-in-law can persuade me about this matter, but I can't." She took out a piece of meat, which was prepared by Zhou's mother for the first day of the new year. In other words, it was specially prepared for When the fifth sister and his wife came to eat, she washed it in the hot water in the pot, cut it, and said, "Mother is living with me now, if I persuade her to go with you, maybe she will think it's wrong." I don't want to keep her, it will be uncomfortable at that time."
Mrs. Mei sneered, "It is said that the emperor loves the eldest son and the people love the youngest son. It is really not a lie. Why does mother help your family with the work? She also helps you cook for the children. My second and third siblings have nothing to do with you." Such a good thing."
Li Qinghe and Zhang Haiyao looked at each other secretly, if Mei had never been married, even if it was less, the betrothal gift would not miss her. When she came in, she didn't want a betrothal gift. If it weren't for the brothers below who were in a hurry to get married, Zhou's mother would not have allowed her to come in.
Neither of them answered the phone. Today is the first day of the new year, who wants to quarrel with her
The two people here were silent, and Mrs. Mei said again, "I know, you all think it's too much for us not to come back to help mother's autumn harvest... Back then when I entered the house, there was no betrothal gift at all, and the young crops didn't ask for a betrothal gift, but they were recruiting. What's the difference between recruiting and recruiting? I've already recruited, so what else can I do to help?"
This is too much, no matter what, the family is busy, so why not help with some work? It wasn't once or twice that Li Qingmiao went home to help, not to mention the son, even if the daughter got married, Zhao Liyuan also came back to help with work.
Li Qinghe didn't want to quarrel with her, so he cooked the meal properly and sent the guests away. Zhang Haiyao is not one to swallow his anger, "snap" put the wooden basin in his hand on the table, and sneered, "See if you can, a widow with a mother-in-law, it would be great if the elder brother wanted you, and he would also recruit... yes Mrs. Liu is guarding, so why don't you invite one to take a look?"
"What do you mean?" Mei's face was ugly. Can't go to the county seat, this matter can't be mentioned to Zhang Haiyao. So for Mei Shi, she didn't want people to mention her previous days.
Zhang Haiyao took the basin again, "I'm living a better life, I forgot the sufferings of the past, let me remind you!"
It's all self-inflicted. Li Qinghe also said, "Mother does live with me, and she does help with the work. But she also helps the second and third younger siblings to take care of the children. Sometimes the two children stay with me for a whole day, and sometimes Fighting. I didn't say anything. You are going to live in the town by yourself, and now the mother-in-law won't help you take care of the children... Sister-in-law, do you think you are reasonable?"
Mei was dumbfounded, and said angrily, "You two say I'm the only one, because you're jealous because I'm rich!"
"What kind of rich are you?" Zhang Haiyao sneered, "My brother and sister have forty or fifty acres of land, and they haven't floated to the sky like you. Even if I'm jealous of her, I won't be jealous of your life..."
"Don't make noise." Zhou's mother came in, "There are guests here, what are you talking about?"
For the rest of the time, Zhou's mother stayed in the kitchen to help cook, and Mei didn't dare to make trouble anymore. After the fifth sister finished eating and sent them away, Zhou's mother closed the yard door and said, "The town , I won’t go.” She looked at Mrs. Mei, “If you want me to take the child, just put it down, but if the child is sick, you have to take it home for treatment.”
"I want to live wherever I want. I live comfortably in the fourth place, so I am willing to live, and hold back if I am not convinced!"
When such words were spoken, no one had anything to say, and the two of Mei and their children went back to the town directly.
A little later, Zhou's mother cleaned the main house, and really went back to the west of the village. Just like what Li Qinghe said to Mei Shi, Zhou's mother lived with her, and she couldn't drive her mother-in-law away. Besides, she also helped take care of the children, so she was stupid to drive Zhou's mother away.
If Xi Yu really wanted someone to watch over her, there would be no one more reassuring than Mother Zhou.
After the Chinese New Year, every family started plowing in the spring. As can be seen this year, Li Qinghe's family will definitely hire people in so many places, and everyone is busy finishing their home affairs for a few days.
Li Qinghe and his wife are famous in the village for paying their wages neatly. They pay when the work is done, and they are willing to eat the lunch at noon. There is some meat in the dish, which is a very good job.
Li Qinghe's field is the last to be planted every year, and she is not in a hurry. There are more sweet potato seedlings this year than in the previous two years, and it has been planned long ago that all the wasteland above will be planted with sweet potatoes.
When every family in the village was busy with spring plowing, Mrs. Qian came back quietly.
After recovering from her injuries, she has been living in Hu's house in the town these days, but Hu's mother is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Although she didn't directly drive her away, she was run on everywhere, and sometimes she deliberately didn't leave food for her. Mrs. Qian couldn't live anymore.
After returning to Qian's house, she and You Shi had a complete falling out, and the two families had no contact at all, and Zhao Tianfu's family of three had already lived in Qian's house. Now there is another Qian family... the villagers can say anything.
Especially in the early days when many people put the land under the name of Qian Laixing through the Qian family, it was considered a painstaking effort at that time. When I asked Qian for help, I gave him a gift, but I didn't take advantage of it. Instead, I was fined three years of grain tax, and I was worried for so long. Now that Qian Laixing is dead, these things are all on Qian's head, and they can't directly trouble her, so the villagers are going around making up anecdotes between her and Zhao Tianfu.
For a while, that said everything.
The fifth younger sister gave birth to a daughter at the end of the first lunar month, and Zhao Liyuan liked it very much. Although Zhao's mother was a little disappointed, she gradually became happy when she saw the infant child every day. She herself was Zhao Liyuan who was reborn after giving birth to a girl. When she was three years old, she had already accepted her granddaughter, and everyone said that her granddaughter was cute and loved to laugh.
In February, when the villagers had finished their work, Li Qinghe began to hire people. Due to the large number of helpers, all the land was planted in a few days. Then, she found several people to go to the woods and cut down the small trees and weeds.
Doctor Huang has saved some medicinal seeds for her. Try planting for a year first, and then save the seeds yourself, and there will definitely be seeds. It will be planted on a large scale next year.
In March, several acres of medicinal materials have been planted, and they are all very common medicinal materials. But Doctor Huang said that although these medicinal materials are common and the price is not high, the amount of medicinal materials is also large. Can't sell.
Li Qinghe asked Dr. Huang about these medicinal materials, and she had already said that he would share 10% of the profit at that time. Doctor Huang refused, but she insisted, and even asked the mayor to come and write a contract.
As a result, Dr. Huang had to pay special attention to the medicinal seeds and the place where the medicinal materials were planted, and ran to the village every three days. Not only that, Li Qinghe has already thought about it, and then he will have to rely on him to process the medicinal materials, whether to dry or knead, whether to take the leaves or the roots. Although people are willing to let her ask if they don't give money, but that would lead to more wrongdoing, and it would be much better if Dr. Huang looked at it.
In fact, the soil in the forest is better than the barren grassland, and many of them are rotted with dead leaves for many years. She and Zhou Chengkang even took time to move the soil in the forest and build a layer of wasteland in the first few acres. Grain harvests are indeed much better. It is also suitable for planting medicinal materials.
After three months of busy work, he finally calmed down. Although Li Qinghe didn't have to go to the fields to work day and night, he still had a lot of chores at home, and it took him a lot of time.
In fact, from clearing the wasteland last year to planting grain this year, the two of them have paid more than ten taels in wages, which everyone can see. Therefore, she is not surprised when someone comes to borrow money again.
Among those who help her with work, sometimes they will come to her and say that there is a lack of money at home, and Li Qinghe will be willing to pay a little money first, but she will only lend a little money if she is familiar with it. A good talker.
But for some people, she would not borrow them at all.
For example, the Yang family next door.
Sitting in front of her, the Yang family and his wife were much older than when they first moved in. "Did your family misunderstand us? We are all neighbors, why don't we communicate?"
"We can't get close." Zhou Chengkang said directly, "Maybe we had a grudge in our previous life."
Father Yang choked, obviously not believing his words.
But in fact, they really had a grudge in their previous life. The bowl of medicine that Li Qinghe drank was said to have been captured by Father Yang. of."
"Brother Zhou was joking," Father Yang forced a smile, "Actually, I want to get along well with my neighbors."