Zhu’s old house is a wooden structure of the mansion, in the thatched cottage adobe house is mainly under the river village can be considered, but the walls and wooden doors have experienced the erosion of the years, peeling off a few parts of the wall, the paint on the door is also discoloured.
The chickens and dogs can’t be shut out, and a hustle and bustle comes out of the door.
Before he arrived at the door, Zhu Pingan heard the sound of chickens and dogs jumping out of the doorway, a familiar sound, a familiar formula, a familiar flavour, when the family was not separated, he grew up with this kind of hustle and bustle. Now listen to this voice again, can not be more familiar.
“Big brother, more or less have to leave a few taels of silver for the family ah, you have taken away, our whole family to drink the northwest wind ah.”Aunt Xiao Si’s voice came out from the courtyard, “Third sister-in-law, do you think so.”
“The fourth family is right, big brother, May is a busy time for farming, the family uses a lot of money, repairing farming tools, buying rice seeds, sprouting, transplanting rice seedlings all have to spend money.”After Aunt Xiao Si finished speaking, Aunt San’s voice also came out.
In ancient times, men were more important than women, in the past, because they were not able to give birth to a son, and their mother’s family was not as good as Auntie Four’s, Auntie Three didn’t have the courage to speak at home, since Auntie Three gave birth to a son, Auntie Three’s waist in the old mansion also stood up, and she also spoke more than before.
“Alright, you all should stop shouting, the boss is going to catch the examination, to win honour for our old Zhu family. The poor family is rich, Yingtianfu is so far away, and the boss is unfamiliar with the area, so he must bring more money with him.”
Grandmother’s voice also followed closely, grandmother’s voice was clearly biased and defending the eldest uncle.
“Cluck ……”
A burst of Xiao Si Auntie’s laughter came from inside the door, and then there was Xiao Si Auntie’s elongated voice, “Mother~~~~ Big Brother has been to Yingtian Prefecture how many times, with his eyes closed he can get to Yingtian, where is it still unfamiliar with the land.”
“What do you mean by that, Old Fourth Family?”The eldest aunt seemed to be like a cat being stepped on by its tail, and instantly exploded, hearing Aunt Xiao Si’s words, which were not saying that my man had failed the examination so many times! What do you know? The imperial examinations are not that good! If you let Lao Si take the exams, he’ll never make it as a student.
“Oh, sister-in-law, why are you so angry? Did I say something wrong?”
Aunt Xiao Si covered her mouth with her small hand and took two steps back, making a weak appearance, but in her voice, she sounded like she was emboldened, even the tone of the world in chaos, “Don’t scare me, I’m timid, it doesn’t matter if I’m scared, but if I’m scared of the seed of the old Zhu family, it’s not good.”
Said, small four aunt also deliberately shy is very pregnant stomach, full of show off rubbed the waist, “aiya, can’t not waist sore terrible, I can have to rest before line, this little brat out, can be good to clean up after him, put me tired enough. I have the same symptoms as my sister-in-law who is pregnant with a pig. In the future, I’ll also let my family Dazhuang study for the Scholarship Examination and learn from his swine brother.”
Little Auntie Four learnt of the pregnancy when Zhu Pingan won the Scholarship and the government sent the congratulatory report, so she named the child in her tummy who did not know whether it was a boy or a girl as Zhu Dajiang, of course, the first name was Zhu Pingzuo, of the pingzi generation, and the second name was Dajiang.
For the little four aunts make a show of appearance, the eldest aunt hate itchy, pretend what pretend ah, who did not have a bad pregnancy how.
“All talk less, the boss exams are important, is to smash pots and pans also can not miss the boss exams.”Grandmother said unquestionably, expressing her determination to support the eldest to catch the exam.
“Smashing pots and selling iron? Which need ah, Jun’s daughter-in-law’s family is not rich, just a silk shop earns a hundred and eighty taels of silver every year, after marrying over, has not contributed to it, big brother’s exams such a big thing, Jun’s daughter-in-law’s family to share a little money just to help big brother a helping hand.”Aunt Xiao Si sat on the chair and turned her eyes, looking at the side of the Zhu Ping Jun daughter-in-law said.
Well, yes, Jun’s daughter-in-law’s family has money, and Yue’s family is also a Xiu Cai, as soon as Aunt Xiao Si said that, everyone turned their eyes to Zhu Ping Jun’s daughter-in-law.
“Ya, aunt this is said oddly lightly, my family s money is not a gust of wind, and besides, the daughter who married out splashed out the water ……”Jun’s daughter-in-law rolled one eye upwards and spoke in a skimming manner.
“All are in-laws, what’s wrong with helping out?”Aunt Xiao Si sneered back.
For a while, you say a sentence and I top it, you snatch a sentence and I choke on it, and the courtyard was a cock and bull.
Creak.
The sound of a door opening woke up the eldest aunt and the girls who were immersed in the verbal sparring, and the eldest aunt shifted her sight to the doorway.
In the line of sight, Zhu Pingan led Li Shu to push open the door and enter the old mansion, followed by four small maids with large bags of pastries and gifts.
“Ya, the swine son has brought his daughter-in-law over ah ……Look at you guys, just come, what else do you bring.”
Aunt Xiao Si was the first to react, just said that the waist is sore to rest it, this where still see a little back pain look to, holding a big belly for several months, does not look awkward, in the other people have not reacted to the time, Aunt Xiao Si has been like a wave of micro-steps, whoosh, a blink of an eye to Zhu Pingan in front of them.
Auntie Xiao Si is still the same as Auntie Xiao Si, just like the airport security inspector, the four little maids’ dumbfounded mouths have not yet closed, and this Auntie Xiao Si has already carefully inspected the big bags of pastries and gifts that they brought with them in their hands one by one.
“Such a nice looking pastry, I can’t bear to eat it.”
“What a beautiful cloth, like it’s woven from the clouds in the sky, feels so good to the touch. How many cloths.”
“So much meat ah ……”
Auntie Xiao Si check one is ow a voice, see the same thing is ow a voice, afraid that others do not know the same.
Hehe
Zhu Pingan looked at the inspection of the little four aunts, can not help but hooked up the corner of the lips, familiar little four aunts ah.
Immediately following Little Aunt Junior over was Grandmother, who also came over after Little Aunt Junior wailed two things, then Third Aunt and Jun’s daughter-in-law.
“This is our grandmother.”Zhu Pingan introduced the family to Li Shu.
“Good day, Grandmother.”Li Shu greeted her grandmother with a smile, her little cherry mouth was sweet, and her behaviour was dignified and elegant, a far cry from the arguing women in the courtyard.
“This is Great Auntie, this is Third Auntie, this is Fourth Auntie, this ……Well ……This is Jun’s sister-in-law.”
Zhu Pingan again one by one introduced all the people who were in the courtyard at the moment to Li Shu, Li Shu also did a qualified little daughter-in-law, after Zhu Pingan’s introduction one by one greeted and greeted her, not a bit of racket.
