Years 26

In the golden autumn of August, Taiping Town is particularly lively these two days.

The material exchange meeting only takes five days a year. All the customers and merchants, both within and outside the province, have come. On both sides of the streets of Taiping Town, they can be placed from East Street to West Street, from South Street to North Street.

Yingzi's small restaurant also became popular. Those within a radius of dozens of miles came to the market. Some people got up at three or four in the morning and walked over to the market.

Aunt Jin looked at Qingping, and Old Man Jin and his wife were helping Yingzi.

Lao Wu also came with him, but before he could stay for ten minutes, Ma Xiaoting stood at the door and shouted: "Who will give you a penny here? Hurry up! Are you busy?"

What are you busy with? Each of them was picking up the thing on the street with a basket on their back.

Some people took advantage of the popularity of this, and moved all the vegetables grown at home and sold them. The buyer carefully cut them off and asked for them. Then the couple went to pick them up. They picked them up and washed them. They could eat them for a long time.

Aunt Jin wants to say it, what can I say? No matter what, I always live a thrifty life, right? Is this wrong?

She saw that Lao Wu lived a very hard life. The wife couldn't do the job in the field. She planted sesame seeds in the first season this year, and two and a half acres of land collected less than 110 kilograms of sesame seeds. How much do you think this is worth?

It’s better to pick the melons you plant when they are ripe and don’t sell them elsewhere. They just put them at the door of this factory. They bought them one by one for more than one hundred yuan.

There was no income in the first season, but it was planted into corn in the next season. It was barely enough to eat when harvested in the autumn.

When Lao Wu was free, he worked as a bricklayer for others and earned some money to subsidize the household income. But when he got the wages back, he wanted to spend an extra dime outside, which was a dream. He bought some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and asked Lao Wu to go there, but he didn't give a penny. He asked Lao Wu to go and find a way by himself. What can Lao Wu do? It's not like Lao Wu, whether it's coaxing or cheating, he can get it anyway. He has no way and dares not go on credit. The key is that he doesn't know when he can pay it back. What can he do? It's either because of his parents' cheating, or looking for his second sister.

Every now and then, Yingzi also gives it to him.

Ma Xiaoting is so clever. If she gets money from here, she will never stop her from helping her and moving something to do heavy work.

Yingzi also looked at Lao Wu with pitifulness. After all, Lao Wu was still a child of the 14th and 15th century when he entered the door. She didn't care about the things that Lao Wu's wife couldn't do.

Seeing Lao Wu leaving, she still wanted to stop him. What can you do if you say you can eat such rotten leaves pickled vegetables?

Just as he was about to speak, He Xiaowan stopped him: "What do you care about him? Lao Wu is not the old Wu Wu."

"As the youngest, what are you sceptical about?" Yingzi said, then opened the drawer and took out five dollars and stuffed it to He Xiaowan: "You and the third brother have been here these two days and help me with it. You can take this money."

He Xiaowan took it without hesitation, but scolded Ma Xiaoting in her heart, she was such a fool. You don’t know what kind of a couple is? You can still make you suffer a loss? Come and help you get a hand, you can buy a cart of vegetables for five yuan. Two two poles don’t do things that can give favors and implement them, but they just do things that are hard-working and not thankful.

Lin Yutong and the Fourth Master did not go to help, but the vegetables planted in the open space in the orchard were tightly used in the small restaurant. They would pick them when they were gone, which was very convenient.

The two of them hugged Qingning and accompanied Aunt Jin, who was hugging Qingping, to go for a material exchange meeting together.

What does it mean to be crowded with people? What does it mean to be shoulder to shoulder?

That's it?

The Fourth Master didn't dare to ask my mother to hold her niece, so he handed Qingning to Tongtong. He hugged Qingping himself, "Just take care of yourself."

Not to mention watching things, I was pushed away by the crowd on the street.

The streets of Ping'an Town were originally full of potholes. Now, for the material exchange meeting, a bulldozer was specially hired to reorganize the road. Although it was still a dirt road, it was at least flat.

The people who sell things are also very concentrated, the people who sell fabrics are all in this area, the people who sell ready-made clothes are all in that area, and the people who buy farm tools are all in another group.

Anyway, all the things that farmers need can be purchased here in one year.

Aunt Jin looked at the fine cotton cloth and bought some, which was for He Xiaowan.

The child in her belly.

I saw some satin materials with very dark colors, rubbing them back and forth, looking hesitant to buy them.

Lin Yutong looked at the material and frowned. She looked shining. She was actually very hard in her clothes. A little cracked, and the fabric became one by one. "What are you going to buy this for?"

Aunt Jin's mouth moved: "While I can still move, I have to make my and your dad's shroud."

Look, what a great day, you are so happy to come out and say this again.

Lin Yutong was angry: "Your temper was so angry that you had fire in your stomach that you didn't feel angry in your heart, and you were living some. Besides, if you have sons and grandchildren, what are you afraid of?"

He pulled her away, he would be looking for trouble.

Aunt Jin raised her hand and patted the fourth wife gently, "Everyone of you is amazing. When I came back from the army with your father, your breasts could move. At that time, the family rules were strict. If you couldn't do the housework well, you would scold and slap them. Now it's better, and the whole thing has been changed. The third family and I are both big and small, and they are so clinging to each other. You look old, but can you leave like this? If you go back thirty years, and you are like this, then the mother-in-law will really knock you with a rolling pin."

Lin Yutong laughed: "It's impossible to go backwards, but will it be over? In another thirty years, when I become my mother-in-law... Mom! To be honest, your granddaughter-in-law will avenge you as soon as we are. We should be revenge." He also wanted to put on his mother-in-law's money and stay wherever he was cool.

Aunt Jin smiled: "That's the best. You can't be good wives one by one. You can also ask your daughter-in-law to fight you well, and you will know what it feels like to be a mother-in-law." She turned around and looked at the two granddaughters and said, "At that time, my two treasures won't have to be angry with my mother-in-law..."

The Fourth Master was convinced by the two of them. You said that people were crowded and they were talking like quarrels. Can’t you chat well when you go home? It’s really okay to put them in the crowd on the street.

Tongtong is now becoming more and more down-to-earth.

I didn't buy anything, so Jing followed the crowd and was selling pea yellow and other things on the roadside. Aunt Jin wanted to buy it for the children, but Lin Yutong stopped her, "It's all dirt, how can I eat it? I'll make it for them when I go back."

Here, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law said that they would buy whatever they wanted, but suddenly the crowd squeezed in one direction.

If you don’t want to be trampled, you have to follow the crowd. As a result, when you get to the place, you will find out that it is the old stage on West Street.

On the stage, it was not an act, but a crazy woman running up. The woman jumped and twisted, and took the red paper of the couplet, which was wet with spit, and then dressed herself up. She wiped her red lips and a red face, making all kinds of shy looks, making everyone laugh.

There was an aunt next to her who liked to tease her children. When she saw Qingping and Qingning were not quarrels or making trouble, they all followed her and said, "Oh! Why are these two kids so similar to the person on the stage? I'm afraid they were adopted."

Qingning looked at her father in shock, and the Fourth Master couldn't help but laugh.

Then he saw Qingping crying and watching the woman on the stage holding her mouth.

They are teasing their children, but they just finished teasing them, but they didn't take it to heart.

As a result, after returning home, the two sisters started to have a fight.

Qingping held her little quilt and pointed outside: "Send it... to deliver it..."

Who will give it to?

The child's tears fell, and he wiped his face, "It's red... there's no place to sleep..."

Come on! The child really thinks that lunatic is her real mother, and he wants to send the quilt to her mother, for fear that she will have no place to sleep at night.

Where is Qingning?

He kept asking her father: "I'm two more mothers?"

The Fourth Master said: "Only one!"

"No!" Qingning was very persistent, "Everyone said that was the same!"

I only said it alone, and everything else?

The Fourth Master followed and reasoned: "One person has only one mother."

"No!" Qingning pointed to the direction of the orchard behind, "My mother and two mothers."

It means that the mother and mother-in-law who moved to the grave. I heard Tongtong call her mother in front of the grave, and she also survived her call her mother in front of Aunt Jin. So she thought that one person could have two mothers.

This question seems to be a bit inexplicable.

The Fourth Master asked Lin Yutong for help: Take the naughty child away quickly, and the more he explained, the more he became confused.

Lin Yutong never explained such problems that she could not explain clearly. She always pursued forceful suppression: "Do you two mothers? You little ungrateful... Otherwise, I'll send you to your mother..."

Qingning opened her eyes wide in horror in an instant, shook her head like a rattle, leaning against her father without letting go.

The Fourth Master disliked Tongtong and threatened the child: "Tell her well." He told her patiently that he would only have two mothers when he grew up.

I thought this was just fooled. As a result, when I was having a meal, Qingning looked at her mother's face, scooped a spoonful of it and ate it himself, and then scooped a spoonful of it on the table. The couple thought that the child had accidentally spooned it? The result was that no, he was so persistent, and scooped it out and piled it together. He also carefully observed the adult's face, especially her mother. If Tongtong had a slight unhappy face, he would stop immediately.

The Fourth Master put down his chopsticks: "Daughter, what are you doing?"

Qingning imitated her father, put down the spoon seriously, and sat upright, "...sent to that... not... mom..."

I'm afraid that the person who seems to be his mother will go hungry.

OK! The child is at least a pure and kind person in his heart.

The child can't tease her, nor can he lie to her.

The Fourth Master was serious and said that the rice on the table was dirty and could not be eaten by others. Although that person was not our Qingning mother, he might be someone else's mother. We cannot give the dirty things to this mother for food.

So Lin Yutong specially served two bowls of rice, took a large bag of steamed buns, packed them up, and the couple hugged the child and went to the stage on West Street.

The crowd on the street had long since dispersed, and the woman picked up the roasted black sesame cakes from somewhere and was gnawing.

Qingning was tearful and felt very pitiful.

Lin Yutong took out the thing and handed it to Qingning. She definitely couldn't hold it, so she just asked her to hold it. Lin Yutong and the Fourth Master were in the back and asked the child to hand it to the woman.

The woman smiled foolishly, took the thing over and handed her pancake to Qingning.

Qingning also took it, pointed to the food on the side, and said to the woman: "Eat...eat...it's almost...it's cold...it's not delicious..."

After returning, the child seemed to have let go of his worries and jumped around again.

Lin Yutong and the Fourth Master were not dependent on their children. They wanted to go out and ran out, and went out to play. The children in the alley, the older ones, took the younger ones, turned into mud monkeys when they came back.

When the weather gets colder, fewer children go out.

During the day, Aunt Jin brought Qingping over and asked the two of them to play here. There was a fire wall here, which was very warm. The children just had to wear jackets in the house. The freedom of movement was much greater.

The most important thing is that I don’t want to stare at the wife of the Laowu family.

The old house was built in the fireplace, which made it very warm. Lao Wu lived in a new house, but there was no one there. If you only burn the kang, the house would still be cold. Originally, the old house where the second and the fourth brother lived could also live in, but Lao Wu and his wife despised it as a naughty house, so they demolished it. They asked them to live in the empty house on the east house, and they despised it as an old lady and refused to go. They were fine during the day, so they came to get the temperature.

It's okay for my son to come here. Before getting married, Lao Wu and the couple lived with each other. But the daughter-in-law came here and left Old Man Jin, the father-in-law, with no place to stay. She simply stopped staying and went to a small restaurant to help Yingzi. Why is it a person who can make a meal and helps him there? He helps with food, drink and salary, which is pretty good.
To be continued...