Chapter 22

Xiejia village, Qinghe County.

Xie Zhifeng's grandfather and grandmother have long passed away. Now the only elders in the Xie family are Xie's father and Xie's mother.

There are Xie Fugui, the second son of the Xie family, Xie Changsheng, the third son of the Xie family, and Xie Laiyu, the younger sister of the Xie family. Among them, Xie Fugui has married Wang, a daughter of a neighboring village.

Wang is a capable person, no matter at home or in the field, so that Xie's mother is so critical and mean.

At the moment, she had prepared the meal for the family.

The Xie family is not poor, and there is a lot of shadow in their ancestors. In addition, Xie Zhifeng is a military household. Every year, people will send money and grain back to subsidize them. In addition, Xie Changsheng can also get some government subsidies.

Normally speaking, Xie's life should be much better than that of ordinary farmers, but in fact, their life is more difficult than others.

Because they had a scholar, Xie Changsheng was not only a scholar, but also a student in the county.

The so-called poor Wen Fu Wu, the cost of scholars is not small!

Not to mention the consumption of buying books on weekdays, just buying pen, ink, paper and inkstone every month is a big expense.

There are also scholars who often gather together to exchange knowledge with their classmates, which all need money.

And in order not to let others look down upon, this dress should not be too shabby.

So although the Xie family has all kinds of income. But life is still tight, fortunately, Wang is a very good living.

The wild flowers and grasses that can be seen everywhere in the field can be made into food by her. Although the taste is not so good, she can fill her stomach after all.

The Xie family are all back, and they all stand at the table waiting for their father to take a seat first. The Xie family is not big, but the rules are not small.

Xie's father put down his hoe in a hurry. He didn't even wash his hands. He just patted it twice. Then he sat down and picked up his chopsticks, picked up the bowl, and began to pick it up.

Other people see this also hastened to pick up the bowl fierce grill.

Xie family's food is limited, who moves slowly, who must be hungry!

Xiefu ate the fastest. After two bowls of coarse rice, he reluctantly put down the bowl, patted his bulging belly and belched contentedly.

"By the way, did you send the meal to the boss?" Xie asked Wang.

After a pause, Wang said apologetically: "today, my daughter-in-law came back late for the market. She was afraid of starvation, so she cooked the rice first. I haven't had time to deliver the rice to my elder brother, but I've already warmed my elder brother's rice in the pot. Let Erlang deliver it later..."

Hearing this, Xie's father frowned and said, "your elder brother is injured and can't move easily. You should take more care of him. Later, we'll send his food to him first, and then we'll eat it!"

Wang was publicly blamed by his father and bit his lip wrongly. When he was about to speak, he was robbed by Xie's mother.

"All right, all right! What a big deal? Boss, he lies dead in bed all day long. Where can he be hungry? We have been busy all day. We are so hungry that we have to eat hot food. Do you still want us to hold him tight? For what? Wang is right! I'll deliver the meal later, and I'll never die of hunger! "

Wang was very happy to hear her mother-in-law speak out to defend her.

She knew that her mother-in-law never liked her, but compared with her uncle, she still loved her more, so she would defend her.

Xie's father was very unhappy when he heard Xie's mother's words, but he didn't want to refute her face in front of so many children. He wanted to share it with her when he went back to his room.

Without her as a mother, even if she can't make a bowl of water even, she has no reason to do so in front of her daughter-in-law.

The little disturbance on the dinner table passed under the deliberate forbearance of Xie Fu.

Wang slowly picked up the rice in the bowl. Seeing that everyone had put down their chopsticks and left, she put down the bowl.

There was only half a bowl of rice left in the bowl, which seemed to be a little less. Wang had to take the vegetable soup on the table and pour it into the rice.

Wang nodded his head with satisfaction when he saw that the rice grains were swollen by the soup and looked like a half bowl.

She went to find a basket to put up the bowl and asked Xie Fugui to take it to Xie Zhifeng.