"Well, my mother must be at home. Let's go to the village and buy some dried beans."
Lin Shunshui helped him to buy two plates of dried beans at the entrance of the village. He and Lin Shunhe went back to Lin Shunfeng's home slowly.
He seldom appears in front of the villagers. Many elders watch him grow up, and there are many peers. When they meet, they always talk about it. If someone asks him how to buy so many dried beans, he will surely say that he came back yesterday, and he hasn't visited his elder brother's house yet. Yesterday, he has already brought a gift to their family. So today, he just bought two plates of dried beans.
They praised him for his filial piety and said that he attached great importance to brotherhood.
No matter how unwilling Lin Shunfeng is, his good reputation spreads in Xiatang village.
Let's not talk about these first, just say that the two brothers bought two plates of dried beans and went to Lin Shunfeng's house together.
When they went, the gate of the courtyard was already open. Mr. Lin was squatting at the gate of the courtyard, smoking old leaves with his head down. The sparks at one end of the smoke were bright and dark, and the smoke covered the deep wrinkles on his forehead. When he heard the footsteps, he looked up and saw that his other two sons were coming.
Lin Shunshui shouts: "Dad, in a cold day, why are you sitting here eating cold wind?"
Master Lin raised his head and replied angrily, "it won't freeze to death anyway."
"Then how? Dad, let's go in and talk. " Lin Shunshui accompanied him with a smile and asked him to go in.
With a snort, Mr. Lin stood up and followed them into the room. He looked down and saw what was on the sailor.
"What did you buy?"
"I bought two plates of dried bean curd, and my son thought about the cold weather. It's very comfortable for you and your mother to sit by the brazier and eat a pot of salted fish and dried bean curd."
Master Lin nodded, took two steps, and then turned to ask Lin Shunshui, "why is the annual gift much less this year than last year?"
"Dad, don't you have to come back early? Besides, it's hard to earn money outside this year, and my boss hasn't prepared too much for us servants. " Lin Shunshui answered very smoothly.
When master Lin saw that he didn't seem to be telling lies, he looked better: "you must be filial. Your mother and I can eat some good things like that. They are all people buried in the mud."
"Dad, what you and your mother want to eat, just take the money to buy it. It doesn't matter if you run out of money. When you can catch fish in the spring, your son will work hard to earn more." This is Lin Shunhe's statement.
Lin Shunshui said with a smile: "Dad, you know, I won't work in my boss after the Spring Festival. I'm getting older. My boss thinks that we are too slow. I've given all my money to my mother. Dad, you see, if you can give me some money after the spring Festival, I don't need more. Maybe half a liang of silver will be enough to repair my rickety thatched cottage."
Speaking of this, he looked around again and said, "it's better for my elder brother to have a good life. If you pick up the ready-made mud brick house, you don't have to worry too much about repairing it. It's like my third brother's house, which is broken year by year and repaired year by year."
When Mr. Lin heard that he asked for money, he made a vague statement, saying neither agree nor disagree.
"Your mother is still ill. She got up this morning shouting that she had a headache, and she said that her heart was pricked by a needle."
"But have you asked Dr. Guo to come and see?" Lin Shunshui was helpless and asked again.
Lin Shunhe is more anxious: "that can be how good, seeing to celebrate the New Year!"
The ancients were very concerned about not getting sick during the Chinese New Year. They always felt that if they got sick during the Chinese new year, they would be in bad health for the next year, and their hands could not leave the medicine jar.
Lin old son white he one eye: "have no promising thing, even own mother-in-law all cannot suppress."
"Dad, why did you scold me again? Didn't I help my mother manage Sanniang's things yesterday?" Lin Shunhe thinks he is quite unjust.
Mr. Lin spat and scolded him: "are you really stupid or fake stupid? Oh, she doesn't agree. You don't know if you secretly caught chickens and ducks and sent them to me? What can she do if she knows afterwards? Can I eat you? "
Lin Shunhe is wronged. Liu Sanniang is hard to talk now. The thief is fierce. The thief is fierce!
"Dad, don't scold the third brother. Where's the elder brother?" Lin Shunshui thinks that if he goes on like this, his father may be angry with his sister-in-law, so he digs off the topic.
"I went out to play cards." Mr. Lin said again: "your elder brother said that it's going to be new year's day. You always have to get some new year's dishes. At least you have to get some chickens, ducks and fish to worship your ancestors. It's better than some people. They say it well, but actually they don't have parents at all."
Lin Shunhe hurriedly said, "Dad, why don't I have you in my heart?"
"Dad, elder brother, you are already a grandfather. Why are you so lazy?" Lin Shunshui doesn't like his big brother very much. He always likes playing cards.
Ten bets and nine losses. There is another one who is a businessman.
Where you can make money.
"What's lazy?" Master Lin is not happy. His three sons are the eldest. They are the most intimate and know their thoughts. The third is the most obedient and filial. Only this second son has many ghost ideas when he is young.
"Dad, how can you support your family by playing cards? Why don't you let big brother get on the boat to earn a living?" Lin Shunshui couldn't understand what his parents thought."He's on the boat? Don't you know your elder brother's body is not good? If he's like the third, he's limping and needs help. Who can we expect to go? Do you count on you? Do you care for us? "
Master Lin was so angry that he spat on his face.
"Why blame me? Over the years, all the expenses in my family are earned by me and my third brother. What's the strength of my boss?"
"Oh, if you don't take care of us two old people, don't you allow your elder brother to take care of us all the time?"
Anyway, Mr. Lin and Mr. Lin always think that they have to have their eldest son around them. No matter what he is doing, their hearts are very solid. No matter how Lin Shunfeng changes his way to coax away the money in his hands, in short, with his eldest son, Mr. Lin and Mr. Lin will not worry. They will not be able to move when they are old and no one will take care of them.
Lin Shunshui has a headache. In recent years, he and Lin Shunhe are not in front of each other. Haven't they ever been filial?
Lin Shunfeng and his family have ten mouths. Is it because of his hard work and Lin Shunhe's hard work?
Because there is no separation.
In fact, Lin Shunshui really wants to talk about the separation of the family. It's a big deal that the three brothers take turns to provide for their parents. In this way, Lin Shunfeng is lazy and takes care of his parents. The key is that his parents are not too old to move.
"Dad, are you starting wasteland again?" Lin Shunshui decided to talk from another place instead of quarreling with his father.
"How do you know?" He took a look at the dried beans among the sailors in Linshun and said, "listen to the woman in the village shop?"
"It's not just her. Everyone says that dad is strong and strong. Thanks to the filial piety of his sons, Dad can be so healthy." There is something in Lin Shunshui's words, but Mr. Lin has never heard it.
He nodded happily: "the boss is busy earning money to support his family. Sometimes he has bad luck, sometimes he has good luck. No matter how much money he can earn, he can't support his family. Later, Niu Meihua and Qingshan have learned to do the same. In this way, the family will gradually become more affluent. He can eat more meat a year. Oh, second and third, you can get closer to the boss in the future Learn from him more about how to do business. Now he is highly valued by those rich people. Since the autumn harvest, although he is not very lucky, he is often invited to the table. Although there is no ready-made money to take, chicken, duck and fish will always get some home. "
Lin Shunshui was angry when he heard that he had heard Lin Qingsong say that Lin Shunfeng was just thick skinned, eating and drinking with those rich people everywhere.
You know, there are always all kinds of banquets to eat when we are near the customs.
Lin Shunfeng always has a way to ask those people to take him, and then he brings back some good dishes. Most of the time, he sneaks into other people's kitchens to help them.
When such a thing is said, Lin Qingsong feels embarrassed, not to mention Lin Shunshui.
I heard his old face burning.
It's a shame.
"Dad, I heard that you not only open up wasteland, but also often choose vegetables to go to the town market?"
"It's too much to eat." Mr. Lin also has his own little 99. His old lady hid her private house from him. He wanted to hide it too.
Lin Shunhe felt that something was wrong. Why did he hear his mother-in-law complain more than once that his parents went to his vegetable garden again?
But he didn't ask. Anyway, the dish didn't fall into the hands of outsiders. His parents got it. Anyway, no matter what they were going to do, Lin Shunhe was very happy.
This is their parents do not see outside, in the eyes of two people, he is still the most important son of the old couple.
When the three were talking, they had already arrived at the main room. When Lin Fang heard Lin Shunshui's voice, he hummed even more.
Lin Shunshui went in to have a look at her. After thinking about it, he took out a 20 Wen copper plate from his arms and handed it to Lin Fangshi.
"Niang, I only have some private things on me. Take them. Remember to ask Guo Langzhong to grab more herbs."
Lin Fang is used to playing this trick. Lin Shunshui can guess with her toes that she is changing her way to ask for money from her sons.
"Why is that all?" Lin Fang's life is not bad this year. Because of Lin's peace of mind, her heart has been inadvertently raised bigger and bigger, and she doesn't like the money Lin Shunshui has given.
"Niang, you should know that your son goes out to work and earn money just to support his family. I also have a large family to support. What's more, I have to respect my mother for two liang of silver every year. Cao'er and I add up to only 200 Wen a month. Although we eat and live in the master's house, there are always some human relations between the servants. Don't we take money for wine? Don't spend money on weekdays? "
"That green leaf and green willow are not quite able to earn?" Lin Fang was very dissatisfied. In other words, it was more and more difficult for Lin Shunfeng's family to raise. They grew up one by one, and they spent a lot more on food, clothing and all kinds of expenses than before.
"Niang, Qingye has her own mother-in-law to raise, and I have to raise her. Qingliu hasn't been married, let alone Yuzhu. Anyway, she has to prepare a dowry for her.""It's just a loss. It costs a lot of money." Lin Fang's heart is still not willing.