Chapter 7

Sitting quietly under the willow tree all morning, the Four Treasures were hungry before lunch time.

Aunt Yu was still working, and the Four Treasures were reluctant to eat the jujube in her hand, so she could only look at the woman who was talking to her mother crouching under the lotus leaf and eating the cake.

Sibao looked greedy, couldn't help swallowing quietly, and reached out to rub her hungry stomach.

I really want to drink rice porridge, really want to eat corn batter, and really want to eat sweet potatoes.

Alas, this aunt's cakes look delicious too.

The aunt saw the Four Treasures staring at her, with the big cake in her hand.

An idea flashed in her mind, the aunt got up and moved towards the Sibao, raised the big cake in her hand, and winked at the Sibao.

Four Treasures looked at the cake she had bit more than half of in her hand, and then looked at her muddy old face, and turned her head away in disgust.

I can't help but think, this aunt is really strange, how can she show the cake she has eaten in front of others, she really doesn't like cleanliness at all.

"Are you hungry, the four treasures of the Yu family?"

When the aunt saw Sibao turned her head, she just thought she was embarrassed, so she followed Sibao's face and approached her and asked.

Four Treasures was a little scared by her being like this. She was really hungry, but the big face in front of her now made her a little afraid to move.

Under the attack of the aunt's muddy face, Sibao moved back without hesitation, and his whole body was attached to the trunk of the willow tree.

Now the aunt understood that Si Bao was despising her when she came to her, and her old face, which was not good-looking, collapsed, and she stared at Si Bao with her brows and eyes raised.

"You heartless, dead girl, the old lady kindly asked you if you were hungry, but you are good, but you also despised the old lady, you are really stupid."

After saying a word, he didn't even catch his breath.

Sibao didn't know if she understood or not, so she just looked at her blankly, which made the aunt think she was a fool.

The aunt then said angrily: "I forgot, you are not only stupid, but also dumb!"

Because Aunt Yu was still working in the pond, that Auntie's voice was not loud, and she was talking about the Four Treasures.

Unexpectedly, this sentence was directly heard by Liu Xiulian who came to deliver the meal.

"Widow Zhang, just talk when you talk, and forget about your nonsense. Why are you still scolding the Master?"

Liu Xiulian had a food basket on her arm, and her round body squeezed over from the side, forcibly separating Widow Zhang from the Four Treasures.

There was a touch of puzzlement on Rourou's face, and he stared at the widow suspiciously.

The widow Zhang couldn't help but take a few steps back and almost fell into the pond.

"Yo yo yo, Widow Zhang, you have to take it easy, don't fall, our Yu family can't take this responsibility."

Seeing this, Liu Xiulian continued to speak reluctantly, and the puzzled expression on her face changed to ridicule.

Simply invisible.

Widow Zhang's cake was tightly grasped by her, and she was almost so angry that she glared at Liu Xiulian and said, "Well, you daughter-in-law of the Yu family, do you still have any education? Did the elder speak?"

Liu Xiulian didn't eat her clothes at all, she put the food basket in her hand on the ground, she started rolling up her sleeves, and said in a disdainful tone, "What does it have to do with you about my upbringing? Or did you catch my sister-in-law? Does scolding mean being educated?"

Widow Zhang, who was speechless by Liu Xiulian's words, threw the cake in her hand on the ground, and raised her hand in a huff to greet Liu Xiulian's face.

Liu Xiulian covered her head and pretended to shout.

"Beating, beating, widow Zhang family beating!"

The sound was so loud that it reached the ears of the other women in the lotus pond, and also beat Widow Zhang, who had not yet hit Liu Xiulian, and was then avoided by Liu Xiulian, and finally came to nothing.

Sibao, who was looking at the food basket on the ground, listened to the two quarreling, and just opened the handkerchief covering the food basket, and was also taken aback by the roar.

Not very happy, he put the handkerchief on the food basket, and Sibao angrily looked at the two quarreling.

Aunt Yu on the other side heard the sound and ran over, looking at the angry Widow Zhang for unknown reasons, raised her hand in front of Widow Zhang, and protected Liu Xiulian and Sibao behind her.

"Aunt Zhang, what are you doing? Why are you still working with the younger generation?"

While speaking, several other aunts also looked over here, and two of them came forward.

As a woman whose husband died before she was 30 years old, Widow Zhang was used to bullying the soft and fearing the hard. She was as timid as her heart, and she only dared to shout a few words in front of the Four Treasures.

When there are too many people, this will make Widow Zhang wilt.

He could only shake his arm angrily and walked towards another place.

Four Treasures was annoyed by so many people watching. In the past, when they were watched by so many people, they would be stoned.

Anxiously, he wrapped his hands around his head, and the Four Treasures lowered their heads nervously and waited.

Aunt Yu, who was on the side, immediately understood the movements of the Four Treasures. She wanted to hug the Four Treasures in distress, but she just bent down and did not dare to hold them because of the dirt on her body.

On the other hand, Liu Xiulian reacted quickly, hugged the Four Treasures, and said to the aunts who were surrounding her, "It's alright, all the aunts are busy with their own work."

He turned back and said softly to Sibao, "It's alright, it's alright, they all left."

He also raised his hand and stroked the back of the Four Treasures a few times.

The gentle soothing eased Sibao's emotions, and slowly put down the hand covering his head, and after looking left and right, he carefully exhaled.

Widow Zhang, who couldn't speak or scold, ran away a long time ago.

Aunt Yu didn't know what to say about this matter. Liu Xiulian just felt very unlucky and didn't open her mouth. After serving Sibao and Aunt Yu, she led Sibao back home.

Back home, there was no one else in the room, only the young Yu Xiaoqing fell asleep in the room.

The first thing Liu Xiulian did when she returned to the house was to see her son.

Four Treasures went back to the house herself, and she was still holding some dates in her hands.

From under the quilt, he took out the cloth pocket he had last time, and there were already quite a few dates in it.

But it's already shriveled, and it's not too fresh.

Those stale dates are not yet ripe, and their color has changed from green to reddish at first.

This is obviously not the color that Sibao likes.

The Four Treasures disliked them and took them out one by one and placed them on the table, and put the fresh dates they had just picked into a cloth bag.

Gently patted the cloth bag, Sibao put the cloth bag back under the quilt, and took the stale dates on the table.

Get up and go to the backyard.

The goats in the sheepfold in the backyard were grazing leisurely, very comfortable, their small eyes swirling with the silhouette of the Four Treasures.

Four Treasures threw all the dates in their hands into the trough.

Not very clear opening: "Eat."

These dates have turned red, and the Four Treasures don’t like them, so I’ll give them to you. Anyway, the grass that the lambs eat is bitter and unpalatable to death.

Sibao looked at the green grass in the food trough, and the bitter taste appeared in his mouth again. The taste he tasted last time makes Sibao still fresh in his memory.

In the evening, Dabao of the Yu family had to go to the back mountain to get some grass and go home to feed the sheep, so he didn't go with the old man Yu.

The old man from the Yu family who went back by himself first bumped into Yu Erbao halfway through.

Yu Erbao stood in front of a shabby tiled house, as if he was communicating with someone.

After the old man from the Yu family got closer, Yu Erbao stopped talking with the man and came over to him.

The old man of the Yu family turned his head to look at the broken tiled house, then looked at his second son who was walking towards him, and asked him with a puzzled face, "That house lives in Zhang Lame, right, what are you dealing with him? "

"Ah, Dad, it's Zhang lame. He stopped me and said a few words."

"What does he have to say to you?" The old man of the Yu family couldn't understand it, he thought about it and continued: "He is a lame man, a lot of age, ignorant and ignorant. He wants money but no money. Don't follow him, do things like stealing chickens and dogs and people will break your legs."

Yu Erbao listened to his father's more and more outrageous words, and his eyebrows jumped, pulling the old man of the Yu family to the side of the road.

"Father, he's not very good, and he has no money, but doesn't he have a pond?"

As Yu Erbao said that, he winked at his father and pointed to the east side of the village, where there were ponds and lotus ponds for each household.

The old man of the Yu family followed his fingers to look over there, and said enviously, "Don't say, the pond as big as one acre really made him cripple Zhang."

The Yu family only had less than two acres of land in the village, not to mention a pond that only wealthy families had.

For a long time, the old man of the Yu family wanted to buy a pond, but unfortunately his family had no money, and he could not have a son who made a lot of money.

"No, what does this have to do with us?" The old man of the Yu family was finished with envy, and his thoughts drifted back, but he still didn't understand.

Yu Erbao stopped following him, and said directly: "Zhang Lai called me just now to talk about the pond. He said that the pond can be given to our old Yu family."

"And this good thing?" The Yu family old man asked in disbelief.

"Of course not." Yu Erbao disapproved of his father's surprised look, and continued, "On the condition that he must have a lame man, we will see if our family can agree."

The face of the old man of the Yu family suddenly collapsed, and a look of disdain appeared. He knew that this lame man could give this pond to him so well?

That designation will not, his mother also put forward conditions, his family is living a tight life, what can be worth this pond, it's really embarrassing.

Without waiting for Yu Erbao, the old man of the Yu family walked forward with a sullen head, and Yu Erbao, who was behind him, hurriedly chased after him.

"Father, father, don't leave in a hurry, just listen to me."

The old man of the Yu family turned a deaf ear and walked forward on his own, while Yu Erbao whispered and chased after him.

"Our family can definitely afford this condition!"

Yu Erbao seemed to see his father's thoughts, and simply let out a low growl.

Sure enough, Yu Erbao's affirmative tone stopped the firm steps of the Yu family old man.

He turned around and asked, "Really?"

Yu Erbao nodded: "It's more real than a pearl."

"Then tell me quickly."

Yu Erbao took a few steps to the old man Yu's side: "Didn't he beg for his daughter-in-law?"

The old man Yu nodded, yes, he is still a bachelor at a very old age, do they want their Yu family to find him a wife?

Thinking of this, the old man Yu frowned, looked at the shabby house that was far away, and then looked at his second son.

"You're twenty-five-six, right? You haven't looked for your wife, do you still want to help him find it first?"

"That's not the case!" Yu Erbao was really going to be pissed off by his father's brain circuit.

So he put his mouth close to his father's ear and whispered softly.

After listening, the old man of the Yu family pushed Yu Erbao away, his face full of disbelief, and stayed where he was.

"Are you crazy? You don't know who he is, the lame man?" The old man Yu stared at Yu Erbao: "Did you promise him?"

Seeing the serious expression of the old man Yu, Yu Erbao was a little nervous, and he couldn't help rubbing his fingers on the legs of his trousers: "I haven't agreed yet, isn't this discussing with you?"

Old man Yu walked towards the house in annoyance, scratching his head with his hands, as if he was thinking about something, but didn't speak.

Yu Erbao knew that his father had an idea in his heart, so he didn't dare to speak again, so he had to follow his father to the house.

After a long time, when the two walked to the door of the house, the old man Yu said hesitantly: "You and I agreed to this matter, and your mother, he, will not agree."

Yu Erbao has been paying attention to his father's expression. Seeing him like this, he knows that his father may have already agreed to this matter, so he continues to talk about it.

"You are the head of the family, you are not alone in this matter?"