After a long time, the old lady said,"This is a good thing, a good thing!" It was fine if she came back later. She could not delay her work.”
"Yes, yes." Aiya, this is great. This is a public office! Good, good! Is the food ready? Alright, let's set it up. Boss and the others should be home soon.”
"Grandpa, Grandma, I'm back." The young man who brought me lunch at noon came back.
The eldest aunt saw her son and immediately said,"Pay?"? Where did you go to play this afternoon? Did you finish your homework?”
"Alright, it's the first day of school. Let's play! It doesn't matter if it's a day or two. Are your Fu Heng and Fu Kang coming back today?”The old man immediately defended his eldest grandson.
It turned out that his uncle had four children!
Third Uncle's family who just came in also had four children. Compared to my family, I was the only one. It was really thin. However, my mother seemed to have quite a lot of weight in this family. It was really true that her family had more confidence and had a stronger backbone.
Eldest Aunt said," Father, they won't be coming back today. I'll go pick them up tomorrow. It's fine to stay at my sister's place for a few days. My sister likes children!”
"You know what you're doing. Are the dishes ready?" Old Mrs. Han asked.”
The eldest aunt said," The food is ready. We're just short of two vegetables. I originally wanted to ask if we should stir-fry the vegetables now or later. I didn't dare to cook them when I saw that everyone hadn't returned!”As she spoke, she mocked Third Uncle's family.
"Let's do it now!" Old Mrs. Han said. I'll go to the kitchen with you." After saying that, he walked towards the kitchen.
In the time it took for everyone to talk, Third Uncle's daughter had already picked all the vegetables. She was really efficient at her work!
...
"It's time to serve dinner. Third Brother, move the table out of the central room. Let's eat in the courtyard today!”The old lady was at the kitchen door, calling for someone to move the table.
Although the weather was not too hot, it was still uncomfortable to stay in the house with so many people. It was good to stay in the courtyard. Although there were mosquitoes, it was comfortable with a breeze.
Third Uncle replied,"Alright, I understand."? Give me a hand! Fu Lei, you guys bring out the chairs.”
"Xiao Juan, the meal is ready. You should come out and eat too!”Grandpa called out to his aunt.
"Dad, wait a moment. I'm feeding the child.”Her aunt replied from inside the house.
"Father, Mother, we're back!" A middle-aged man led a young girl into the courtyard and called out to her. This should be Eldest Uncle.
"Grandpa and Grandma, we're back!" the young girl said.
Grandpa turned around and said," It's time to eat. Xiao Yi, go wash your hands. The food will be ready soon!"”
The girl didn't say anything and went to the well to get some water to wash her hands.
Eldest Aunt came out of the kitchen with the dishes and said,"Why are you only back now? We're waiting for you."
Uncle said,"Today, Zhong Xuezheng talked to me for a while. He said that starting tomorrow, he will also give these young ladies a holiday. When they go again, they will be informed!"”
The eldest aunt said," Let it be. The school is on holiday. This place is for learning embroidery. It's already not bad to let it go at this time."”With that, she returned to the kitchen.
The old lady brought her sisters-in-law and placed the food on the table one after another. They also brought a pot of tea. He told everyone that it was time to eat.
"Get on the table!" Old Master said.”
In fact, only adults and older children could sit at the table. As for us, the younger ones, we placed a low table at the side. Each child had half a bowl of rice and a steamed bun. There were no plates. We just put a few dishes into the rice bowl with our chopsticks. If there was not enough, we would ask the adults for more.
Looking at the dishes on the table, they were not as sumptuous as they were at his grandma's place. There was no meat at all. There was a fried egg that was full of meat, a fried vegetable, a pot of potato slices and seaweed (this dish was the cheapest. Potato was very common here, and seaweed was a common food here. Because the whole province was in the coastal area, such seafood was abundant and cheap), and a cabbage soup.
"Father and Mother," said the eldest uncle,"let's eat."”
Grandpa said,"Eat your chopsticks!" You must be hungry!"
Grandma said,"Eat! There was nothing to eat now that it was in a mess. He had wanted to make tofu today, but it was a pity! I can't even eat tofu now."
No one replied.
Everyone ate in silence. No one spoke, afraid that they would get into trouble if they spoke!
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After the meal, Grandma sent her aunt into the house to look after the child. Then, she asked everyone to clear the dishes. Grandma sent the sisters-in-law to wash the dishes. Grandpa and the men continued to sit at the table and drink tea.
After a while, Grandma saw that the work was almost done and called everyone to the courtyard.
After everyone sat down, Grandma spoke first,"Everyone is basically here today. It's chaotic outside now, and everyone is stockpiling food.
Those of us who don't have land in the city don't have much food in reserve. We have to buy anything. Now that the world is difficult, let's talk about it!”
After Grandma spoke, everyone remained silent.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Grandpa asked,"Boss, what do you think?" He kicked the ball to Boss.
The uncle who was named looked at everyone and then looked at the old man and said,"We have to buy grain now. There are lines outside every day to buy grain. I don't know how long this grain can be sold for.
I heard from our supervisor that the yamen and the rice merchants are planning to limit the purchase on the market. We have to buy them as soon as possible in the next one or two days!”
He looked at everyone's expressions and continued,"I just don't know what Father and Mother's intentions are.!”He kicked the ball back again.
When the old lady heard this, she groaned for a long time and said,"We have so many people, why don't we get 300 to 500 catties of food?
Two days ago, your father took out one tael of silver and didn't buy much grain. Now that the expenses have increased, I don't have much on hand. We didn't usually ask you to hand over all the money to me.
You can take more from the eldest and us. The second and third families can take more depending on their own situation.”
After saying that, the old lady looked at everyone and waited for them to express their stance.
Seeing that everyone was silent, First Uncle could only say,"This is what we should do. We're the eldest and we still live with our parents. It's only right for us to take more.”After a pause, he said,"Our family will pay two taels of silver!"”
Upon hearing that he was going to pay two taels of silver, the auntie's expression turned ugly. She tugged at the sleeve of her uncle's clothes.
After hearing this, my mother didn't say anything. She was still watching.
Third Uncle said,"I'm fine with anything." However, Third Aunt refused to do so.
Third Aunt said," What do you know? We can't take out much silver. Why did Eldest Uncle say that he still has a job to repair the city walls and yamen? What do you have?
Besides, we have a lot of children, so we have a lot of money to spend.
Father, Mother, it's not that we don't want to take the money, but it's difficult. Look at our children, they're already so old, yet they still pick up the clothes left by their brothers and sisters to wear!”It meant that he had no money.
Grandma didn't say anything when she saw her daughter-in-law crying about poverty! He turned around and looked at us. His eyes meant that if your family is rich, you should take the lead and show us more.
Seeing that everyone was looking at her, my mother also said,"Dad, Mom, our family has been a little tight recently. You know that our head hasn't made much money since he came back. Didn't we just ask my father to find a public position? We spent a lot of money to get it.”What my mother means is that we can pay for it, but it won't be more than Boss. We can come here for a meal every day. One tael of silver is enough.
Hearing this, the old lady was a little disappointed, but she couldn't say anything. Finding a job for her son was a serious matter. Besides, their family of three didn't come to eat every day. One tael of silver was fine!
"Second Brother found a public office?" Uncle said in surprise.
My mother said,"Yes! We haven't been at home these few days because we went to my parents 'house to ask my father to run this matter. Now that there's a war going on, a few days ago, our comrade-in-arms came to our house and said that if they don't have any official positions, they might return to the army to support them.
"We were anxious. When we received the letter, we didn't get anxious. We went to look for my father to think of a way. Fortunately, my father has some reputation. He was hired yesterday and went to the yamen today!”
"This is a good thing, a good thing. It's all thanks to in-laws!" Usually, it was difficult to find a public office, let alone now!”
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