Chapter 123 Suspension Scales

Li's mother's family made trouble in Xu's family for most of the day, and finally took Li back to her mother's house. She also insisted on two pieces of money from the old Xu family, saying that it was used to mend Li's family.

Xu Laoer's previous injury had not healed, and he was beaten again. His whole body was paralyzed on the kang and could not get up. His face was full of scratches on the left and right side, and his hair was pulled down by someone, and his whole body was in a mess.

Yingzi simply said that he was uncomfortable and couldn't get up. He lay in the west room and refused to go out.

Both of the family can't lie down and get up. Someone has to take care of it, but this situation is always difficult for her daughter-in-law to come forward. There is no way. Mrs. Xu can only let Xu Laoshi and Lingzi come to take care of them.

Xu Laosi and Lingzi are also very angry with their second brother. In the past two days, the family has made the family restless to talk about it, so that the whole village is watching jokes. Li's mother's family doesn't know what's going on. Maybe she has long played the trumpet through the window and has become famous.

Both of them want to talk about their age, the reputation of their families, and the impact on their future. Others don't say that they know it in their hearts, but when they see Xu Laoer lying on the kang, he looks miserable, and they don't know how to attack. It's really heartbreaking and hateful. The root is itchy.

The beginning of autumn is a few days after the Qixi Festival. The beginning of autumn is an important agricultural time. As the saying goes, at the beginning of the beginning of autumn, you will go hungry in the spring. At the beginning of autumn, all households begin to prepare for the busy autumn harvest.

In the countryside, Liqiu is also a big festival. Generally speaking, no matter what the conditions at home, you will always try to make a few hard dishes to eat on this day. As the saying goes, this is called pasting autumn fat to make up for the fat lost in the bitter summer. There is also hope for the autumn harvest. I feel that you can eat better on the first day of autumn, which means that the family can Have a fat year.

Old Xu is a face-threed person. In the past, the whole family must have gathered together, made a few hard dishes and put two tables in the yard.

Occasionally, when villagers passed by the door and heard people praise: "Oh, Lao Xu, I'm doing well at home!" Stick more autumn fat!" Old man Xu can drink more than half a pot of wine happily.

But at the beginning of autumn this year, the family can't take out any money. I haven't borrowed any money from Ye's mother's family before. This time, I was forced by the Li family to find the villagers to get together and borrow two pieces of money. Old Xu's face was lost, let alone thinking about Liqiu. He let go in advance and said that this year's Liqiu is different and what he likes to do. What are you doing?

It's cold early in Northeast China. As soon as the beginning of autumn, it will cool down in the morning and evening. Only when the sun rises at noon can people feel a little hot.

In the morning of the first autumn, Ye called up his family and grabbed a handful of red beans. The adults took 14 beans and seven children gave them. They had to stand in the west and serve them with well water, saying that this could ensure that they would not suffer from dysentery in one autumn.

Xu Xinger was speechless when she heard the words. In her opinion, eating raw beans with raw well water is easy to get sick. Usually, she precipitates the well water overnight, boils it the next morning, cools it, and then lets her family drink it. Now under her influence, even Xu Laosan, who has never been used to it, no longer drinks raw water.

However, this is also a custom in the countryside. Seeing that Ye believed it very much, she didn't say anything and drank it obediently.

Xu Laosan took out the hook scale from the warehouse, put one end on the stick, and then asked Xu Xinger and Taoer to go there separately, grab the iron hook on the scale pole with both hands, and weighed their feet off the ground.

Xu Xinger is much taller than last year. Now she is about to be as tall as Ye's shoulder, but her weight has hardly increased much, and she is only 42 catties so far.

Compared with last year, Tao'er is not much tall, almost half a head shorter than other people's five-year-old children. After weighing it, it was less than 25 pounds.

Ye reached out and pinched Xu Xing'er's arm and pinched her waist again. Usually, she didn't feel it when she looked at it every day. Now she weighed her weight and found that her two daughters were so thin.

Xu Xinger was pinched by her. She hid behind Xu Laosan with a smile and gasped and said, "Mom, don't pinch it randomly. It's so itchy."

"Why don't you grow fat just by growing up!" Ye sighed, "Our food is still too poor. You two sisters are too short of mouths."

"What does this have to do with food? People who should be fat still gain weight after drinking cold water. It's good that our family can eat and wear warm clothes now." Xu Xinger comforted Ye and said, "Isn't it pasting autumn fat today? Cut more meat and have a good meal."

Xu Laosan took out the two small ones and weighed them separately. The lock has been three and a half months, and the twelve catties are not fat or thin. The chestnuts are only more than two months old, but they are more than ten catties, and their small arms and calves are round.

Xu Xinger put her arms around Ye's arm and said, "Mom, what did I say? They all eat the same thing. Look at Locker and chestnuts, so it's not a matter of food at all!"

Ye couldn't help laughing, but said worriedly, "It's better if the boy is stronger. What if the girl is too fat?"

"Ouch, my mother!" Xu Xinger said helplessly, "Look, you have to worry about getting fat, and you have to worry about losing weight. How big is the chestnut? At worst, you will be hungry in the future."

"How can you be hungry when you are growing up?" Ye couldn't help being annoy.

"Mom, you will worry about it." Xu Xinger pushed Ye to Xu Laosan and said with a smile, "Dad, you have weighed my mother."

Xu Laosan also said to Ye, "Catch it yourself and I'll weigh it for you."

"Go!" Ye Shi blushed slightly and stretched out his hand to push Xu Laosan away. "If the child is noisy, you will also be in a mess. Why don't you clean up and go into the room for dinner?"

After breakfast, Xu Laosan went to work. Ye Shi prepared lunch at home. It was rare for each family to spend the beginning of autumn alone. Although there are too many things at home now, it is still necessary to make two meat dishes to relieve the appetite of adults and children, and add some oil and water to their stomachs.

Xu Xinger and Shanzi made an appointment to meet in the mountain. After breakfast, she went out with a basket on her back.

Ye went to the butcher's house in the village to cut meat as soon as possible. There were already several people in front of her. Seeing that the people in front of her were not familiar, she just nodded and said hello, and then went to the end of the queue.

When the old women in front of them saw Ye's coming, they came over and asked, "Mother Xing'er, your family was so noisy yesterday. Are you still going to spend the beginning of autumn together today?"

Another person covered his mouth and said with a fake smile, "Oh, I want to say that your family is really broad-minded. I heard that you have borrowed a lot of money and are also interested in buying meat."

Ye's face was stunned when he heard the words. He lowered his head with some embarrassment, rubbed his toes, grabbed the basket with both hands hard, and couldn't wait to turn around and leave. However, thinking that men and children usually can't eat anything good, it's so easy to get subsidies. He can't stop buying it just because he is laughed at a few words.

"It's not the collapse of the sky to live your own life. Why can't you live in Liqiu?" Brother Cheng came quickly from behind and choked.

"Brother Cheng, why do you talk like this? We just care about it and didn't ask you!" A tall woman rolled her eyes unplealy when she heard this.

Brother Cheng's mother is not Ye, and immediately said, "What do you want to ask? What do you want to ask? There is still a mess in your own family. How dare you talk about the length of other people's family?

"What did I say about the length of me? Her family is like that, and no one is allowed to say a few words? If you have the ability, close the door and don't let us know!" The tall woman raised her voice and shouted vigorously.

"If they can't fight, they are also in their own yard. They didn't hit your kang. Even if they kill people, it's still a matter of the officials. It's not your turn to talk about it!" Brother Cheng's mother put her hands on her waist and said sharply, "After talking about right and wrong for a year, your tongue is tired and thin, right?" Today, why don't you buy a few more sticks and go back to make up for it!"

"You..." The tall woman was so angry with her that she pointed at her for a long time and couldn't figure out how to reply.

"Oh, forget it. Why do you quarrel with her? It's almost time for us to buy meat." A few people who chewed their tongues together were originally people who were weak and afraid of the strong. They knew that Brother Cheng was not easy to mess with, but they couldn't say anything about her. They randomly found a step and persuaded the man away.

"You are so good-tempered that you don't know how to fight back if you are bullied." Brother Cheng's mother said with hatred, "I don't know why you gave birth to such a good daughter as Xing'er!"

"I don't know who Xing'er's temper is. Neither I nor her father are quick-tempered." Ye used to talk about his daughter. In addition to headaches, now he is more and more full of relief and pride.

"It's because you are too bullied that the children know how to protect you at a young age."

Brother Cheng's mother used to like Xu Xinger very much. Although the villagers said that she was too fierce, the little girl dared to fight with anyone, and it was even more lifeless to fight.

But Brother Cheng herself is not a traditional virtuous woman, and she is relatively strong. She knows that every time Xu Xinger loses her temper, she is because she is bullied or protecting her family, and she is not a random fight at all.

And recently, Xu Xinger has become more and more sensible. Whether she is working or dealing with people, she is not a little better than before, so she likes it more and more, but because Xu's second family's Yingzi hasn't said anything to kiss, it has been difficult to speak.

These days, Xu Xinger and Shanzi go in and out together every day. Brother Cheng feels uncomfortable, and Brother Cheng's mother is also a little uncertain, thinking that she won't be robbed by others without opening her mouth.

"I also know that I'm too soft-hearted, but it's been like this since I was a child. If you ask me to change it, I can't change it." Ye is also quite helpless. He also hopes to be like Brother Cheng's mother, no matter how he speaks and does, but each person has a personality. This kind of thing is naturally raised by nature, and it is not something that he wants to be able to do.

"You see, in the past two years, no one dares to provoke you, and it's all because they are afraid of the fierceness of your apricot." Brother Cheng's mother slipped and instilled in Ye, "So I said, you can't let Xing'er marry far away, otherwise when she goes out, you won't let others bully you to death."

"It's not a good idea to marry far away and marry near now. You can't delay my daughter's life for myself." Ye had heard Xu Laosan mention it before, so when she heard Cheng's words, she immediately understood what she meant, but it didn't show it on her face, and only replied ambiguably.

Brother Cheng's mother took it as soon as she saw it was good, and she didn't say anything more. After buying the meat, the two went home together.