Chapter 9914 Back to the beginning
Everyone went their separate ways, and the backyard was busy again.
Outside the courtyard gate behind Lao Yang's house, separated by a small dry ditch, is a large field.
Because the whole lamb was going to be roasted today, Yang Ruoqing had discussed it with Yang Huazhonghe in advance and found Uncle Chang Gen and the other bricklayers in the village to build a long row of stones and bricks. A fire specially used for roasting sheep.
The inside is already filled with fruit charcoal. Now we are waiting for the sheep to be knocked down, and then skewered with iron hooks and brought over for roasting.
Lao Yangtou walked around outside. There were people everywhere in the front and back rooms, and they were all busy preparing for the fourth-bedroom daughter-in-law to recognize the door today.
Lao Yangtou put his hands behind his back, holding the dry tobacco pole given by Mr. Tan, and hung a cigarette bag full of shredded tobacco on his waist.
After walking around, the old man felt as if he had returned to the old Yang's house. He even cleaned up the dusty front yard and lobby. The shrine dedicated to the ancestors was decorated with the thickness of a child's arm. red candles and filled with offerings.
The main room was just like a banquet in the past. There were four tables. Each table had a long bench in the east, west, north and south directions. Each bench could seat three people side by side.
But only two people can sit on the stools in the east and west directions, and three people can sit in the north and south directions, so this is how one table can seat ten people!
After Old Yangtou looked around, he returned to the east room with satisfaction and prepared to drink tea and sit for a while.
As soon as I entered the house, I saw that compared to the noise and people coming and going outside, the east room was peaceful and quiet.
Tan was sitting in the moon boat fire barrel by the window, with a sewing basket on her lap and immersed in making shoe soles.
The sole of the shoe is a kind of mille-feuille, which is troublesome to wear, but it is really comfortable to wear on the sole of the foot.
What Lao Yang wore on his head and feet was a pair of shoes with thousand-layer soles, but these shoes were not given to Tan by Bao Suyun.
What can I say, in the past ten years or so, my clothes and shoes from head to toe have been purchased by my daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law. I have basically never worn these things made for him by the old woman again.
As for the reason, I won’t say much more, because even the old man himself doesn’t want to recall it.
But at this moment, when Lao Yangtou looked at the sole plate in Tan's hand, he felt secretly happy in his heart.
"Whose sole plate is this big for?" Old Yang came over and asked deliberately.
Tan didn’t even bother to flirt with him, but said something unpleasant: “For an old dog!”
"Uh..."
Old Yang's head was covered with black lines, and veins were pulsing on his forehead.
“You, you, you, you will lose your whole life because of your mouth!” said the old man.
This time Ms. Tan was finally willing to raise her head and look at him, "That's no problem. My parents gave me this mouth, and I can't say nice things. If you like to hear nice things, just Go find your Yunya and come back. She will tell you something nice. I’m sure you’ll be itching to hear it.”
The black lines on Lao Yangtou’s face were like noodles, almost covering his face completely.
"It's been a long time ago, and you still don't mind mentioning it to me!"
Tan put down her work, raised her head, and glared at Old Yang: "Hey, Even if you did something like that, you wouldn’t mind complaining about it. What’s there to complain about?” A slap in the mouth.
If I had known this, I would not have teased this old woman. She is really not funny at all, let alone make a joke.
So, the old man had to quickly change the topic to one that interests the old lady, otherwise, this would be endless.
What topic should we change?
The old man rolled his eyes, and then he thought of it. "So, Mei'er is coming over today, right? Have you said hello to her about this?"
The old man really made the right bet.
As soon as Yang Huamei was mentioned, the anger in Tan's eyes immediately disappeared, and his eyes returned to normal.
"There's no need for me to say hello. Yesterday, everyone was having full-moon wine in the fifth room. The fourth child and Mrs. Liu all said hello to Mei'er."
"Mei'er will definitely come over today. Yes, don’t worry! "
"Well, just come over if you can. I saw that it was already after breakfast and I hadn't seen her yet, so I asked." The old man said, walked to the table and sat down. Take a break and take a few puffs of cigarettes.
As soon as he sat down, Mrs. Tan ordered him: "Don't sit still, take a trip to Lao Wang's house and have a look!"
"Huh? That's it! Are you going?" The old man was surprised and just sat down to take a breath!
Tan said: "If you don't want to go now, when will you go? Go and urge Mei'er to come over early, come and chat with me, and tell her that the fire barrel here is warm and I have prepared snacks for Zhuang Zhuang. Come on, tell her to come here quickly!”
Old Yangtou: “Don’t worry, wait for me to take a few puffs of cigarettes!” Go ahead."
"Why are you smoking? That stuff is choking. I'll throw the pipe away for you later!"
"Don't use this pipe anymore. It’s a gift. It’s a pity that it fell.”
“Will you go?”
"Okay, okay, I'll go right now, hey!"
Lao Yangtou didn't even have time to get the tobacco pole and bag, so he got up and left the east room, and went to Lao Wang's house to find Yang Huamei. .
Looking at the back of the old man walking away, Mrs. Tan snorted proudly and ordered him from behind: "Close the door, the wind is strong!"
The door was closed, and the noise was suppressed. After blocking the outside, the house became quiet again.
Tan picked up the shoe sole plate and connected it with the flying needle. After working for a few rounds, Tan suddenly thought of something, put the shoe sole plate back into the basket, got out of the moon fire barrel, and walked towards the table.
She first picked up the dry tobacco pole on the table and looked at it for a few times, then put it back down, and then picked up the cigarette bag next to it and took a look at it.
"What a bad old man. The cigarette bag is torn, the tobacco is leaking out, you can't even see it, and his eyes are bulging!"
Ms. Tan muttered, He poured the remaining tobacco in the cigarette bag onto the table, then sat back into the fire barrel with the empty cigarette bag.
The old lady found a piece of clean cloth, made a few marks on the cigarette bag, then cut off a small piece with scissors, and sewed along the inner circle.
After a while, it was finished. The old lady bit her head and bit off the thread, turned the cigarette bag back to the front, stood up and returned to the table, sweeping the tobacco on the table back into the cigarette bag. Then tighten the mouth of the cigarette bag.
After all this was done, she sat back in the fire barrel with satisfaction, and then put the soles on Lao Yangtou's shoes.
On the way to Lao Wang's house, Old Yangtou met many villagers. Everyone would stop and say hello to the old man. He was polite, and Old Yangtou would also stop and say hello to them. sentence.
Whether it was in the past or now, Lao Yang's family in Changping Village was, to put it bluntly, a well-known family. Even in the past, they were doing well.
(End of this chapter)