Chapter 16: The White Jade Gourd

The mood of the hostess can affect the mood of the family, how about others, Guan Ping'an doesn't know, she is waiting for Aunt Guan to put down the dishes and chopsticks and leave, and drag her mother to slip away.

As soon as she arrived at the east room at the back, she immediately stuffed the sweet potato into Ye Xiuhe's hand, "Mother, eat two bites first." ”

Ye Xiuhe looked at her well-behaved daughter and sighed secretly, took it and put it aside, walked to the wooden box, lifted the lid, and took an egg from it.

"Mother go steam a chicken cake, you wait in the house obediently. ”

Guan Ping'an hurriedly grabbed her, and now she went to the main room, this is looking for scolding. She took a step back and raised her head, "I'm not hungry right now. ”

Ye Xiuhe hesitated, nodded, picked her up and put her on the kang, moved the needlework basket over, picked up the soles of her shoes, and praised with a smile, "My daughter's hands are really skillful." ”

"I'm with my mother. ”

Ye Xiuhe was so happy when she heard this that she put her forehead on her small forehead and smiled.

Guan Youshou came in with his son in his arms and saw the mother and daughter making a mess on the kang, and patted his son's little buttocks enviously, "Your mother doesn't love you anymore." ”

"I'm going to play too. Guan Tianyou couldn't understand the sour words, and his little body struggled towards the kang, "Mother, my head is itchy, you can see if there are lice again for me." ”

"Yo, damn it, where are you going to play again?"

Guan Youshou stuffed his son onto the kang, walked to the wooden barrel, squatted down and stretched out his hand to stir it, and secretly laughed: This stupid daughter-in-law, why don't you let the eldest and middle daughter-in-law take it back if you want to eat alone?

Just as soon as his mother said that there was a bucket missing.

Thinking of this, he picked up his daughter, picked up the barrel and walked out. Don't add fuel to the fire, after all, it's his own mother, and it's terrible if he gets angry and has a stroke.

Guan Tianyou poked his mother and pointed at his father's back.

Ye Xiuhe shook his head when he saw this. It's not a valuable thing, and she can still make a little if she wants to go back. Since his own man took it out, he naturally had his reasons.

Guan Youshou took his daughter to the main house, and at this time, the outhouse was empty except for his brother and daughter-in-law Ma Dujuan, who was still washing dishes. He still carried the barrel into the East House.

"Dad, mother, rest. ”

Aunt Guan was angry, glanced at him, and continued to bury her head in the soles of her shoes.

But Uncle Guan knocked on his long pipe, "Something?"

Guan Youshou pointed to the barrel, "This is a bit of a loach, Ming'er will make up for your old body." ”

Aunt Guan snorted sneeringly, "I didn't know that these were still valuable things." ”

Guan Youshou put his daughter on the kang, sat on the edge of the kang himself, and said with a smile, "Mother, are you really angry with your sister-in-law, why don't your son go and beat her up now to dissipate your anger?"

"Hmph. It's almost as good as you beat yourself up first. ”

Guan Youshou opened his mouth in surprise, "What's the matter? It turns out that I made you angry? Ouch, why didn't you say it earlier." ”

As he spoke, he poked his head out and stretched out to Aunt Guan, "Come, you beat me hard, but you can't make my mother angry, and my son won't feel distressed when I turn around." ”

"Die!" Aunt Guan smiled with a straight face, and scolded with a smile, "I'm angry when I see you." ”

Uncle Guan rolled his eyes.

"I knew that my mother loved me the most. Guan Youshou looked at the shoe size on his mother's hand, and swallowed back some words about the fourth child who had married his daughter-in-law and his shoes should be from his younger siblings.

The old man favors the eldest and spoils the elder, so it is better for him to say a few words.

Serious matters.

Guan Youshou took out a small handful of gross tickets from his trouser pocket and put them on the kang table, and sure enough, his mother stopped what she was doing, and his father didn't stuff tobacco into the cigarette stick.

"There are still three cents and eight cents here, my mother can put it away, and I really don't have a penny on me. ”

Aunt Guan frowned, "It really cost seven yuan?"

"More than six pieces. Mother, you don't know, since yesterday, in the city, I was hungry and poured water into my mouth, and I was even more afraid of spending money without food stamps. ”

Uncle Guan still understood the urine nature of his third child, and glanced at him with his eyelids, "If you have anything to say, I don't care after that." ”

As the old saying goes, "The boss is fine, the second is simple, and the old is delicate." ”

The third child in his family is a freak, he has everything, if it weren't for his mother-in-law giving birth to a child, he would have suspected that he had the wrong child at the beginning.

Guan Youshou sighed first and gently touched the bandage on his daughter's head. Well, next time I go back to change the dressing and ask the old doctor to tie a few more.

"What are you doing?"

Guan Youshou frowned, and sighed again, "Dad, mother, why do you say that my daughter has so many disasters, but this child is kind-hearted."

You said how old she was, as soon as she saw that her cousin was about to fall down the mountain, she went over to pull herself, if she was a girl, who would die for others.

But this stupid girl is good, and when she woke up, she asked me if her third sister was bleeding? I shook my head, and this little girl was still stupid and happy. ”

Guan Ping'an, who was beside him, immediately showed a shy smile in cooperation, blushed, and added expectantly, "That's my sister, dear." ”

Guan Youshou sighed again.

These three sounds, one is longer than the other.

"The child is right to think so, what is a blood relative? But I'm just worried that she will still be so desperate in the future. You can't teach it, and you can't let your child die in the future, right?"

Aunt Guan touched Guan Ping'an's little hand, "It's a good boy." ”

"Daddy......" Guan Youshou moved his butt and rubbed it to Uncle Guan's side, and whispered in his ear, "Is that little gourd when I was a child still there?"

Uncle Guan blinked, "Which one?"

"It's the one the old monk gave me. At the beginning, you said that in the tunli, I was a little child wearing too eye-catching, and I deliberately put it away for me. ”

So is it not to return the goods to their rightful owners?

Uncle Guan hesitated for a while, "Do you want to give An An? You don't wear it, it's nothing, any talisman is a lie." Isn't it all about breaking feudal superstitions now?"

"Why is it useless? That time I had a high fever on the board, and my mother said that I couldn't recognize anyone, and then it was all just a sudden relief. Guan Youshou looked at him suspiciously, "You shouldn't give it to my eldest brother, right?"

Uncle Guan was annoyed and smacked his head with a cigarette stick. That's what he thinks, but if he finds out, he can't break the sky?

He immediately nodded at his wife. I remember that when the eldest grandson was born, he cried non-stop at night, and his wife took his grandson back to the house for a while.

At that time, it seemed that I had worn it for the child for one night, but it turned out to be useless. Since the third child wants it, give it back to him, otherwise this stinky boy will have to make trouble.

Aunt Guan got the instructions of her wife, took out a long key from her body, turned her back and opened the door of the kang cabinet, and took out a small box from the bottom layer.

opened it with a small lock, quickly took out a small white jade gourd from it, closed it and stuffed it into the cabinet, and pulled it out with anxiety after locking it.

Guan Youshou's eyes twitched when he saw this. He knew better than anyone else where his father had buried the most valuable things.

Guan Ping'an stared at the familiar little gourd, and the whole person froze there.

- It was the only relic her aunt had left her.

Even if she doesn't get started, she won't admit her mistake.