Chapter 5 (1/2)

After breakfast, the men of Xue family wen to the farm land.

Xue Qingshan went outside, too. However, the destination was not farm land, but the town. It is said that the elders of a classmate’s family in the town celebrate birthday.

Now it’s busy with the farm, and there are not many schoolchildren in the school. This is the case with private schools in the countryside. Every two seasons when the farmers are busy, the school children will be on holiday, so Xue Qingshan has also been quite relaxed recently. But no matter where he goes, no one cares about him. When the school is on vacation, he just often disappears a few days.

Zhao’er washed the dishes and chopsticks used by the little man and took them back to the kitchen. Zhou is cooking pig’s food, and Tao’er is sweeping the yard. Seeing that she had nothing to do, she recruited Heizi’s food bowl and scooped a bowl out of the leftovers that she was going to mix with pig grass. Then she walked out the door.

Zhou looked at her back and said nothing.

The leftovers are for Heizi. This is how the country dogs. The host eats good food, and the dogs just can eat leftovers. When the host eats not well, the dogs usually go hungry. The dogs in the country are used to starving. However, it’s rare for Heizi in normal times. Whatever is good or bad, Zhao’er should always give him a bite of food.

Occasionally there are extra meals, of course, these are not visible in front of others.

Anyway, Zhao saw Zhao’er picking food from her pig’s mouth and giving it for her dog!

She saw this scene when she lifted her foot out of room. Her old face was pulled down immediately, but she didn’t criticize her. She stood in front of the door and shouted in the direction of the kitchen, “Let you feed the pig. You ’re good. Take the food to the mouth of dog. Such a big person but useless. You just eat in vain.”

This clearly means that point at one but abuse another.

Zhou did not speak. And Tao’er, who was sweeping the yard, looked up at the grandma and just born everything. Zhao did not point out the full name. Who knew who she was scolding, if she stepped in to intervene, she would only be transferred to be scolded.

These are all lessons learned.

As soon as Zhao’er walked to the door of the courtyard, she heard such a scolding, and she did not show any weakness. She turned and looked at Zhao with a smile, “Grandma, are you scolding the third aunt? But it was too wrong. You should scold me. This leftover is mine. I plan to give it to Heizi. I don’t think he is not easy either. He always goes back home with a rabbit. You can’t do something that you want to do with the cattle, but do not graze the cattle, am I right?”

Zhao stared at Zhao’er angrily, and she knew that this girl was not easy, so she would scold Zhou, but she didn’t expect her to be forward. Before she wanted to say something, at this time, several women who passed by in front of the hospital, smiled and said, “I saw the people of the Lianxing family are so energetic early in the morning.”

Someone interrupted, “Don’t talk, Zhao’er was right, how can you let cattle work but not graze?”

“Yes, Mrs. Zhao, it’s almost enough. The big black dog in your family, whoever doesn’t like it in the village. At this time there is almost no rabbits in the wilderness, but he can also pick up rabbits. How clever he is! Usually In the summer and autumn, there are not many voles, wild rabbits or pheasants, but he also pick up them to the house by himself. If you don’t like Heizi, just give him to me, because your uncle Shouxin has long been in love with this dog.”

This woman is an aunt of Mr. Xue, who is known as aunt Shouxin. Although she was ten years younger than Zhao, she has a high reputation.

There are more than 200 households in Yuqing Village, with Xue and Zheng as the big surnames, and another dozen households are various surnames. So all of them are so inevitable that all households are affixed with relatives. But relatives are relatives, and when it comes to being younger than others, you have to respect him or her, so when the aunt Shouxin talks about it, she tells in the tone of the elder.

Zhao was speechless by this remark, not to mention that she was scolded, but it really made her reluctant to give Heizi to others. As these people have said, Heizi usually takes some wild animals to his home. Regardless of the size, he is a meat anyway. It is not easy for the country people to eat meat.

She didn’t speak with a unhappy face, but Zhao’er was in front of the door and said, “Seventh grandma, this is not possible. Heizi is my lifeblood. You’re going to run my lifeblood. I can’t live.”

As soon as she said it, she smiled and said some witty words. She immediately made Auntie Shouxin laugh. She pointed at her and said to the people nearby, “Look at the naughty girl, you are not polite at all. OK, fine, I don’t want want your dog, or it will take the lifeblood of my Zhao’er.”

All in all, Zhao’er sent these women away with a smile, and then turned back to feed Heizi.

Zhao stared at her, turned to enter the room, just raised her feet, heard someone behind her call her.

“Mom, why are you standing here?”

She was Xue Cuiping, Zhao’s eldest daughter. She came back.

Xue Cuiping looks like Zhao, but she has a pair of big apricot eyes. In her twenties, she was dressed in a blue and white jacket, with a pair of wide leg pants in marmalade red underneath. Holding a bamboo basket in her hand, she covered it with cloth and couldn’t see what was in it. She was looking at Zhao in confusion.

This really means that speaking of the devil and he is sure to appear. The old man explained before, Zhao is planning to send a letter to Shangshui Village, which saves a lot of trouble.

The mother and daughter walked into the room while talking, and soon disappeared behind the curtain of the front door.

Zhao’er squatted there to watch Heizi eating, touching his head, but she was a little curious about how the first aunt came back when it is busy with the farm.

*

“That’s not okay, mother, you make me poke my backbone!” Xue Cuiping stood in the first wife’s room after listening to Zhao’s words.

Zhao’s hand stretched out to pull her, and at the same time, she gestured to keep her quiet, so as not to be heard.

“Why? How it can’t work? You are Gouzi’s aunt, and you and you second brother were so close when you were a little girl. If the family says that the child is willing to listen to someone, it is estimated that it will listen to you.”

Zhao’s remarks are actually true. Xue Cuiping was good with her second big brother Xue Qingsong when she was a child. She got along well with Qiu when she was not married. When Xue Gouzi was born, she hugged him a lot.

Xue Gouzi has been shy and restrained since he was a child, and since his parents went away, he was silent and gloomy. He often didn’t say a word for ten days and a half month. He liked his aunt Xue Cuiping than other members in Xue family.

“But…” Xue Cuiping’s face was full of embarrassment, and she secretly said in her heart that she shouldn’t come back this time. She never thought that she had not finished the task of going back to her mother’s house, but she had such a mission.

“Don’t forget that your son Xingzi came to our private school. Your eldest brother didn’t care about your money. Now that your big brother needs your help, why do you want to ignore it? If Juncai is good, then your brother will be OK. His son is promising. Can you still suffer?”

“Why don’t you tell Gouzi yourself?”

Zhao has never been a patient person. To be able to speak in such a gentle tone is to see Xue Cuiping is her daughter. Seeing her daughter’s unwillingness, she said to her again, and then burst out, “If I can tell him directly, still needs you? Your mother can say this kind of words? If we let outsiders know, what is it?”