Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 211

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Tian family endured it for a long time and finally couldn't bear it anymore, "Mom, it's fine that Second Uncle doesn't want to come to harvest wheat, but now he doesn't even want to bring me water. Look at Aunt Wu's Zhong Qingqing, no matter how lazy she is, she still comes to bring me water."

Aunt Tian didn't respond. She knew that her sons and daughters-in-law were very dissatisfied with the second son, but what could she do?

Don't want this son? Or do you want to split the family?

Will he change for the better after the separation? Auntie Tian thinks not. Based on her understanding of the second son, he will never work in the fields even if he is too lazy.

She sighed. If she wanted to continue, separation seemed inevitable.

The eldest son went out for half a day and came back with a small water melon. She asked everyone to eat the watermelon first and talk about other things later.

The water melons that Tian Da picked were not very big, so the family sat down and each person shared a piece.

Several daughters-in-law looked at the endless fields and the melons in their hands, and they all thought that they would have to ask for a division after the harvest.

Even if life is hard, it is better than keeping a freeloader.

A few days after the grain was harvested, news of the division of the Tian family spread in the village. The village chief and several older people in the village went to help act as witnesses.

"Are you really breaking up?" asked Zhong's mother.

Aunt Wu came to visit and said with a pout, "The Tian family finally did a good thing. If they didn't split up the family, I think there would be no one to do the work in the fields in the future."

It seems that they really broke up. These days, Zhong's mother was busy drying the wheat and had no time to inquire about what happened in the village.

It just so happened that I had some free time today, so Aunt Zhao and Aunt Wu came to visit.

There are several women sitting in the yard now, including Sun Tao. If you ask her, the grain harvest these days is much better than before in Jiangjia Village.

In the past, she and her husband were the only ones who relied on the dozens of acres of land in Jiangjia Village, and no one else in the family worked in the fields at all.

In the Zhong family, she was not the one who needed to do much physical work. Everyone was working and no one was idle. Jiang Qin was even tanned several degrees.

"Then who is Old Tian following now? It can't be with Tian Lao Er, right? That's really hard to explain." Mother Zhong chatted while peeling peanuts, and she never stopped working.

"How is that possible?" Aunt Wu immediately shook her head. "It's normal for the old Tian couple to follow the eldest son and his wife. When the family splits up, don't they always follow the eldest son? If they follow the second son, they will have to starve to death every day in the future!"

Although Sun Tao couldn't get a say in the middle, she was happy in her heart!

She has never been as relaxed as she is now. When she was in the Jiang family, there was always endless work to do. When her father-in-law was still alive, her mother-in-law was quite nice to them, but after her father-in-law passed away, they never had a full meal.

so good!

She couldn't tell whether being sold was a blessing or a curse for her. Being sold was miserable, but she felt good about meeting Ruyi and the Zhong family.

If she had to be sold and beaten before she could meet them, she thought she would still be willing to do so.

Half a month later, the watermelons planted by the villagers have gradually ripened. Now the villagers are in higher spirits than when they were harvesting grain some time ago.

Some people even slept in the fields, guarding the dozen or so watermelon trees.

The Zhong family planted an estimated three to four hundred watermelon seedlings, not counting the more than two hundred they gave to villagers when they moved the seeds to the fields.

Everyone was longing for these watermelons. Those who didn’t grow any were so envious that their eyes turned red. They had never thought that they could actually grow them.

The families who planted the crops were afraid that someone would do something bad, so they each sent someone out to guard the crops.

The Zhong family is guarded by Zhong Laosan and Zhong Laoda, who grow a lot of crops.

When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, the sound of gongs suddenly rang out in the village.

"Someone come quickly! The wild boar is coming down the mountain!"

This shout was like thunder out of the blue.

Those who were still sleeping were awakened instantly, jumped up, and without even putting on their clothes, they picked up the hoe or shovel at home and hurried out the door.

There are rice and other crops in the field. If they are rolled around by wild boars, they will be finished!

For a moment, the whole village was in an uproar, and everyone who needed to get up got up.

The village chief was beating the gong, and a group of villagers followed him and rushed towards the direction where the wild boar came from.

Chen Dongzhi and Zhong Laosan were also in the crowd, both holding long knives that they had picked up when fighting the robbers last time.

Everyone went to kill the wild boar aggressively. In a corner where no one was paying attention, Tian Laoer sneaked into the one-acre watermelon field of the Zhong family with a sack.

After the young and strong men in the village killed the wild boar that had come down the mountain to destroy the food, Tian Laoer took advantage of no one's attention and carried a sack of watermelons back to the small house that was allocated to him.

Zhao Ganwei laughed, "Luckily, we found the wild boar in time because we needed someone to watch the night while we were growing watermelons. Otherwise, the wild boar would have destroyed all the food by the time we woke up the next day!"

The villagers were also very happy. If they hadn't planted water melons, who would come to keep watch? Everyone slept until dawn. All the food would be destroyed by the wild boars in one night.

"Alright, alright, go to bed if you need to! I'll put the wild boar in my yard first, and we'll divide the pork early tomorrow morning!"

Those who were sleeping went back to sleep, but those who were supposed to keep watch in the fields continued to work.

just.

Zhong Laosan glanced at the place where he had just laid down to take a nap. He remembered that there was a melon serving as a pillow, but how come it was gone when he came back?

But because it was too late, he wondered if he had seen it wrong and perhaps he had not slept in this place just now.

Seeing his brother still standing there stupidly, Boss Zhong asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhong Laosan shook his head, said it was okay, then found a melon pillow and continued to take a nap.

The two brothers took turns to keep watch until dawn, when people began to move on the road, and then they went back.

The village chief went to find Chen Dongzhi early in the morning and asked him to help slaughter a pig. The village butcher went to his father-in-law's house to help with work, so the job fell on him.

Zhong Ruyi didn't go when the pig was slaughtered, but she went when the pork was divided.

The village chief said that it was she who gave the watermelon seedlings, so the Zhong family got two more pounds of meat.

No one else had any objection and they all praised the village chief for his good division.

At noon, the village was noisy again, and Aunt Wu's voice could be heard from far away.

"It's a thief! Someone stole several melons from my garden!"

When Zhong's mother went out to check, she heard Aunt Wu's crying voice at the door, "I don't know either! Why are there a few melons missing? We've caught the wild boar, so why are there still melons missing? Is this a case of being robbed?"

"I check and feel them every day. There are already thirty fully grown melons and more than twenty melon buds! I checked and counted them yesterday when I came back from the field. But this morning after I divided the pork, I went to check and found that five of the grown melons were missing! Three of the unripe melon buds were also missing!"

Aunt Wu became more and more excited, and Zhong's mother quickly comforted her, "Maybe it was eaten by mice."

"Impossible! I looked carefully. If a mouse had bitten it, it wouldn't have taken the whole thing away. It's obvious that the vine had been torn apart by someone!"