"Li Jianghu, what time has it been and you still haven't gotten up? Is your skin itchy again?" The Hedong lion outside the door roared again.
I sat up suddenly and squinted my eyes to look through the cracks in the window screen. The horizon in the east had just turned white. I guess it wasn't even nine o'clock.
Hey, when I came back last night, I happened to meet Cheng Laoliu who was doing the watch, and he said it was three o'clock in the morning. Calculating this, I only slept for less than two hours!
"Did you hear that? Why don't you come and grind the beans for me?" The sound of the door being slammed so hard that the whole door almost fell apart.
"Oh, I understand, grandma." I responded and quickly got out of bed.
In the yard, the middle-aged woman who was fishing beans from the basin was named Song. She was the eldest. Everyone loved to call her Aunt Song. Of course, some people also nicknamed her "Tofu West Lion".
My family sells tofu, so there are endless beans to grind every day. In my memory, my mother-in-law always soaked the soybeans before going to bed the first day, and got up before dawn the next day to grind the beans, except for the New Year holiday.
For a few days, it seemed like I never had a break.
Grandma just turned forty last month. Except for Fatty Wang and his daughter, who brought two bags of pastries over to have a meal together, no one else came.
I was surprised, don’t I have any relatives in my family? Every time I asked about it, my mother-in-law would always yell with her hands on her hips: "What relatives? They are all dead!"
How is it possible? As the saying goes, if you are poor in the busy city and no one cares about you, but if you are rich in the mountains you have distant relatives. There are always seven aunts and eight aunts, but my family is poor, who is willing to bring bad luck? Of course, my mother-in-law has a bad temper.
Okay, I'm afraid that if someone wants to come over to visit me, I'm afraid that she will scold her.
In fact, my mother-in-law must have been quite good-looking when she was young. Now, although she doesn’t wear makeup and wears linen clothes all day long, her charm is still there. Haha, otherwise, how could she have given birth to such a handsome son like me!
"Are you stupid? Why are you standing there laughing?" Auntie scolded and raised the spoon in her hand, but she refrained from hitting me.
This is strange again. It seems that my mother-in-law hasn’t hit me in a while! Is it because her brain is damaged or her arm hurts again? I turned around and was puzzled for a moment.
Auntie added a small spoonful of beans to the middle of the millstone, poured a little water, and sighed softly: "I know you came back at four o'clock last night, so you helped me finish grinding this basin. You can go to sleep for another hour, and then remember
Go buy wine and longevity peaches. Do you hear me?"
I yawned: "Don't you need me to take you to the street today?"
"No, there's not a lot of stuff today, I can pick it up. It's Fatty Wang's birthday today, so we have to go to his house because he's a neighbor after all, and he's your master."
"Auntie, do you really want me to be a widower?"
Auntie added another spoonful of beans: "You have this talent, how can you waste it in vain? Besides, Zuo Zuo can also be regarded as a person in the government office. If you do well, you will make friends with the policemen and so on inside. On weekdays,
When something happens, you can still be accommodating to a certain extent. You see, Fatty Wang, although he is just a widower, he still has four taels of labor and food silver every year, and he can also reduce part of the tax."
I feel that I have to say something: "But the law clearly stipulates that once I become an 'untouchable', my descendants will not be allowed to enter the official career. I am afraid they will not have a way out in their lives."
"Your bastard father didn't even have a successful career. You are already twenty now, and you just idle around all day. It's hard to say whether you will get a wife or not. Do you still expect your descendants to become officials?"
As Aniang said, she glanced at the bean juice flowing into the basin and smiled slightly: "Hey, what do you think of Jiajia?"
"Wang Jiajia?" I was shocked: "Mom, can you not mention her when you are working? I'm afraid she will spit into the basin and soil the bean juice."
"You brat, you've really gone against the grain!" Auntie was still angry and grabbed my left ear: "Why does Jiajia make you so disgusted? I've told you, of course
If you dare to say this in front of her, I will break your legs!"
"I know, I know, Mom, let go, it hurts, I'm not kidding," I begged.
"Hurry up!" Auntie glared at me and said no more.
Wang Jiajia, huh, actually this person is really annoying. Not to mention that he killed his mother when he was born, but he fought with me for milk when he was born. Every time he calls my mother "mother", he calls me "mother" more often than I do.
They all want to be intimate with each other, and those who don't know it think she is their biological child. I'm afraid my mother-in-law is also confused by her, otherwise why would she talk to her every time?
I peeked over and saw that my mother was losing her temper and her brows finally relaxed, so I felt relieved.
In fact, grandma is very pitiful. I, Aye, am just a rickshaw driver. Grandma did not enjoy much happiness when she married him. She still relied on her mother's craftsmanship to make tofu to support the family.
When I was five years old, Aye was delivering goods to someone else. It happened to be raining heavily, and a flash of lightning caused the horse to be frightened, and he and the car fell down the cliff. When the rain stopped the next day, Aniang walked into the mountain.
When we found him, he was long gone.
Since then, my grandma's temper has gotten worse and worse. People used to call her "Tofu Xishi" for her beauty and gentleness. Later, she slowly became "Tofu Xishi". She would become angry every few days if she didn't practice the Lion Roaring Kung Fu.
It feels uncomfortable to hold back.
As the saying goes, there are many disputes in front of a widow, let alone a pretty woman like A Niang. However, over the years, no one dares to be presumptuous in front of A Niang, and no one dares to speak ill of her, of course.
, the nickname "Tofu Western Lion" is another matter.
In fact, when I was eight or ten years old, there were quite a few matchmakers who proposed marriage to my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law’s tofu was also sold very well. In addition to the tofu, even the tofu curd was eaten freshly from the pot. Of course, people came to eat it.
Yes, most of them are men.
My mother-in-law holds a rolling pin in her hand every day. When she encounters someone who talks frivolously, she can't help but hit her out. Slowly, I don't know whether it's because she doesn't like the one she likes, or because others think she's fierce, or because they dislike me.
As a result, the remarriage gradually faded away.
I was quite happy at the time, thinking that since my mother-in-law didn’t want to remarry, she could always stay with me. But as I grew up, I saw how hard my mother-in-law was working, and I hoped that she would find someone who would love her.
She shares the burden on her shoulders.
But the men in Xiangzhou City are not stupid. Seeing that my mother is getting older and older, and there is a son as old as me waiting to get a wife, who is willing to give money to my family?
Hey, after all, I was the one who caused my mother-in-law to suffer, so my mother-in-law was angry. I could scold her and hit her a few times. She vented her anger and I was happy too. Haha, I am thick-skinned and fleshy anyway, so I am not afraid of pain.
. But she likes to pull my ears, which is unbearable. It’s just a matter of face anyway. It’s so ugly to pull my ears into one big one and one small one.
"Okay, okay, you go back to sleep for a while. I'll clean up here." Auntie waved her hand at me, with a look of disgust on her face. She didn't know whether she really thought I was in the way, or she felt sorry for me.
"Oh, then I'll take a nap and then go buy a gift for Master. You can keep a jar of wine and eat it later. Are you sure you want to buy fifty longevity peaches? Can Fatty Wang eat them?" I got up and walked towards the bedroom, suddenly
Some questions.
Grandma stopped the broom in her hand and said, "Have you seen Taozi? How big is he? Is fifty too many? The four of us can't finish two meals?"
Two meals for four people? I nodded and suddenly realized that my mother-in-law had already planned it. She prepared these goods today and sold them until noon. After closing the stall, she went to Fatty Wang’s house to celebrate his birthday and have lunch. Then he would definitely
We stayed for dinner, so with a few polite words, we, mother and son, were provided with food for the day.
Ginger is still spicy! Fatty Wang, you should buy more vegetables. Although Wang Jiajia looks a bit scary, it is undeniable that the food she cooks is quite delicious.
Glutinous rice dumplings, red date cake, chicken stewed with mushrooms, braised pork... It smells so good, it really smells good! One bite, a mouthful of oil, your mouth is full and full, so satisfying...
Fragrant, really fragrant! It seems to be the aroma of gardenia.
Gardenias? I opened my eyes suddenly, and sure enough, a large bouquet of gardenias was right next to my face, with a flower-like smiling face.
"Brother Jianghu, you finally woke up! Did you dream about something delicious? Haha, I saw you were chewing something all the time, and you only praised it as 'it smells good'."
"Oh, Jiajia, why are you in my room?" I swallowed and quickly wiped the saliva from my lips with my sleeve.
"Mom told me to wake you up in an hour. I saw you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't wake you up." Wang Jiajia put the gardenias into the bottle on the table, followed me out of the house, and walked casually to the well.
He helped me fill half a basin of water.
I ignored her and went to the toilet behind the house to pee. When I came out and saw that she was still there, I knew that this girl was probably going to pester me for another day.
I came to the stone table beside the well and looked at the handsome face in the water. I couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Is such a handsome man like Pan An qualified to only deal with corpses in this life? Then I will stick to this person from childhood to adulthood.
When an ugly girl marries a daughter-in-law, how many "little rivers and lakes" and "little alleys" will be born?
No, no, no, if a person lives like this all his life, that would be too scary!
I trembled all over and plunged into the water. If I were a fish now, and this basin was a big river, allowing me to swim as much as I wanted, that would be great...
"Brother Jianghu, Brother Jianghu!" Wang Jiajia suddenly shouted.
This girl is always so startled and disturbs my dreams! Humph!
"Brother Jianghu!"
A hand grabbed my hair and pulled me out of the water.
I spit out the water in my mouth angrily and wiped my face: "What are you doing?"
Wang Jiajia's frightened face instantly turned into a smile: "Hahaha, brother Jianghu, you scared me to death. I saw you buried your head in the water and didn't take a breath for a long time. I... thought... thought..."
"Think I drowned in this basin? You...your brain..."
I glared at her with disdain and wanted to scold her a few more words, but I swallowed my words again. I am a man after all, how can I care about a little girl? What's more, this girl is already stupid.
It must have been a difficult childbirth at the time, which kept her in her mother's belly for a long time, or she must have been stunned by Fatty Wang's knife. This chapter has been completed!
