The two sat in front of the stove and chatted for a long time before Tang calmed down.
"Yuehua, do you know that the Gu family has a student?" Tang asked.
Gu family?
Song Yuehua recalled, "I've heard people say there's a scholar named Gu, but I've never seen him."
"snort!"
Tang snorted coldly, "I haven't seen this Gu Qing many times, but I have seen his mother Huang Fengjuan many times."
"She is said to be a maid from a wealthy family, and she looks down on us peasants. If it weren't for the dog...if it weren't for Rushan, I would have paid attention to her!"
Tang went to see Huang Fengjuan to find out what the school fees were and what the requirements were.
Also, I want Gu Qing to help take a look at Zhang Rushan's academic performance and see if he is suitable to be sent to school.
It was normal for neighbors to ask and help each other, but Huang Fengjuan acted arrogantly and laughed at Tang's wild idea of wanting to have a son from a poor family.
I'm talking to you nicely, but you insist on being a jerk!
Tang immediately rushed over and started fighting with Huang Fengjuan.
In the end, it was Gu Qing who was in the house who heard the noise and ran out to mediate the fight, and the two sides finally stopped.
Song Yuehua raised her eyes and asked, "Who won?"
"Of course I need to say that!" Tang puffed out his chest and said proudly.
"If Gu Qing hadn't come out to stop me, I would have definitely plucked out all the hair on Huang Fengjuan's head!"
Song Yuehua smiled and gave a thumbs up. Although Tang didn't understand, she somehow knew that he was praising her and burst into laughter.
"It's not easy to take care of Gu Qing," Tang sighed.
"I am always detained by Huang Fengjuan. I am not allowed to go out or talk to the villagers. I am a 16 or 17-year-old boy, as thin as a bamboo, with no blood on my face. I look quite pitiful..."
There was still half a bowl of sugar water in the bowl. Tang finished it in one breath and stood up.
"I should go home and cook. I've been feeling very uncomfortable with all these things. It's a good thing I can talk about it now, but it has delayed your work."
Song Yuehua smiled and said, "Aunt, please don't be polite with me. I have nothing to do anyway. I can only listen and can't help much. Please don't despise me, Aunt."
The two of them exchanged a few polite words before Song Yuehua escorted the man out the door.
A few days later, Xie Feng came to pick them up. Xie Wenwu and Xie Yu took a long time to pack up their things.
Song Yuehua carried two hangs of cured meat, two cured fish, 50 salted duck eggs, and a large pot of homemade rice wine and put them on the Xie family's ox cart.
"It's winter now, and I have two little kids at home. I can't get away, so I won't go to your house to pay New Year's greetings. This is my New Year's gift."
Xie Feng looked at his empty hands, feeling a little helpless, "I..."
"Uncle Xie, if you are free, can you help look after my Xiaobao?" Song Yuehua asked with a smile.
"Can!"
Xie Feng first felt Xiaobao's pulse, then he held him in his arms and pressed his pulse gently, which made Song Yuehua, who was standing by, a little scared.
I couldn't help but ask, "Second Uncle, is Xiaobao okay? Is there anything wrong with his brain?"
After a moment, Xie Feng raised his head and said, "It's okay."
He added, "He's quite normal."
Song Yuehua felt slightly relieved.
After all the things were loaded onto the ox cart, Xie Yu and Xiao Yu held hands, reluctant to part.
Xie Wenwu also said with rare sentimentality, "Master, I will be back after the New Year. And Lao Zhang, I will be away for a few days. Don't slack off in your studies. Study hard. I will check on you when I come back."
Zhang Rushan grabbed the man's throat and knocked him down.
After everyone climbed onto the ox cart, Zhang Rushan scolded with a smile, "Stop talking nonsense, and help me get a good result from Third Uncle."
The two of them got on the ox cart, and Song Yuehua said, "Be careful on the road. Next time you come, I'll make you roast duck."
Xie Wenwu said with a look of resentment, "Master, if you don't want us to leave, just tell me. For this roast duck, I will come back tomorrow!"
Song Yuehua, "..."
After the two of them left, the room became much emptier.
That evening, just after Song Yuehua finished her meal, she heard someone knocking on the door. When she opened the door, she saw Xie Feng who had returned with six or seven ducks in his hands.
"Uncle Xie, what are you doing?" Song Yuehua was a little confused.
"New Year's gift!" Xie Feng handed over the duck.
Song Yuehua joked, "Second Uncle Xie, do you want to eat roast duck too?"
"I miss it very much!" Xie Feng said frankly.
This person was quite direct. Song Yuehua responded, "Next time you come over, I'll roast one for your second uncle."
"OK!"
After putting down the duck, Xie Feng left.
Until a few days before the Chinese New Year, Zhang Rushan and his sister still came over every day.
As soon as Zhang Rushan arrived, he opened the book and took notes while reading. In the afternoon, he practiced calligraphy on his own initiative.
There used to be a Xie Wenwu, and Zhou Xiaohu didn't think he was that lazy. But now that Xie Wenwu is gone, compared with Zhang Rushan, he feels like a real lazy bug.
If I don’t come, I can’t bear to leave the kang…
In order to clear his conscience, Zhou Xiaohu also practiced calligraphy for several days.
Zhang Ruochu doesn't like studying, but is willing to learn needlework from Xiaoyu. As the New Year is approaching, Xiaoyu gives Ruochu a purse embroidered with small flowers.
"Thank you Sister Xiaoyu, I like it so much!" Zhang Ruochu said in a childish voice.
Then, she took out a few hair ties from her pocket and held them in front of Xiaoyu like offering treasures, saying, "This is the hair ties that Xiaocao taught me to weave. Sister Xiaoyu, do you like them? Can I give them to you?"
"Okay!" Xiaoyu took it with a smile, "I just happened to be missing a hairband, thank you Ruchu."
Song Yuehua stood by the kang, trying hard to comb Xiaoyu's hair. She didn't know what was wrong, but she couldn't get it right. Maybe it was because the food was good recently, Xiaoyu's hair became smooth and slippery.
In the end, it was Granny Wang who sat on the stove and quickly combed two delicate little flower buds for Xiaoyu.
Song Yuehua, "..."
On New Year’s Eve.
Song Yuehua climbed up to the roof with a ladder to shovel the snow, while Zhu Yanli and Xiaoyu swept the snow in the yard.
After sweeping the snow, I put up New Year couplets and blessing characters on the door, and finally brushed the stone slabs at the door clean, and that was almost done.
It’s a new house, so there’s not much to do with cleaning.
After cleaning the house, they started to clean themselves. While the sun was strong, Song Yuehua and Zhu Yanli lit two large pots of charcoal and made the bathroom warm.
They took turns bathing the eldest and the youngest baby. After the children were bathed, the adults took theirs. Even Grandma Wang was carried into the bathtub and took a comfortable bath.
Finally, everyone put on new cotton-padded clothes and new shoes, and felt that even their souls were refreshed.
"Girl, you must have put a lot of thought into this bathroom." Zhu Yanli dried her hair and sat on the kang. "But it's worth it. It's convenient and comfortable. I feel refreshed after taking a bath."
Song Yuehua smiled and said, "Isn't this the feeling I want?"
"That's right!" Zhu Yanli lazily lay down on the kang and said, "It's so comfortable, I don't even want to leave."
The smile on Song Yuehua's face disappeared.
Zhu Yanli immediately burst into laughter, wiped her eyes, and said softly, "Girl, thanks to you, otherwise my mother and I would not have such a good life."
Song Yuehua frowned, "Don't you want to pay?"
Zhu Yanli: "..." This heartless girl!
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