The new book of the burning prairie star

Chapter 15: Life will be better after these two years

Li held Yang Caixiang's hand, while Yang Xiaozhen picked up Qianxiang, and the family of four walked out of the courtyard gate.

"What does this mean? Ah... Is this Li mentally ill? Ah..." Wang was a little hysterical.

Yang Li looked at Wang and thought she was hateful. She was obviously not like this before. She and Xiao Zhang got along like two sisters. He didn't understand why she became like this in recent years.

The men all went to take a bath in the river outside, leaving only Wang and her mother and daughter. Oh, no, there was also Zhang lying in the house.

"Dad, how are we going to live from now on?" Yang Lidi pulled Yang Dashan to a deserted corner and complained to him.

"How to get through it? Just like this." Yang Dashan knocked the pipe in his hand against the wall, and the ashes instantly fell down. He took out a pack of tobacco from his arms, pinched some with his hands, put it into the cigarette hole for tobacco, took out a lighter to light it, took a puff, and exhaled the smoke heavily.

"Brother Zi'an is about to get married, and sister Meihua won't be able to stay at home for a few more years. They will have to move to other families. You, just endure these two years and your life will be better." Yang Dashan comforted his eldest son, and it seemed like he was comforting himself at the same time.

"It is for my children that I have been so tolerant. Dad... Dad... I really can't stand it anymore..." Yang Lidi said as he squatted in the corner and cried.

"It will be fine, it will be fine." Yang Dashan hugged him and patted his back gently. He felt like he was back to when the child was a child, or even a baby, coaxing him like that.

Yang Lidi knelt down and hugged his father, crying loudly.

"Dad..." Yang Ping'an saw Yang Dashan and his son in an empty corner from afar and shouted.

"Stop shouting." Yang Zian hurriedly pulled his brother behind a big tree to block his view. "Can't you see Dad is crying? You have no sense at all."

"Ah, did Dad cry? How come I didn't see it?" Yang Ping'an looked from behind the tree. "Hey, don't look, be careful if Dad sees it, it will be embarrassing." Yang Zi'an pulled his brother back. "Are your eyes raw or a piece of meat? You can't even see this." Yang Ping'an was speechless.

"Brother, Matchmaker Wang came to our house today and said that a girl has taken a fancy to you. Did you know about this?" Yang Ping'an smiled slyly.

"You really have no conscience. Don't you want to know why your father is crying?" Yang Zian was a little annoyed. In his opinion, how many good things can be delivered to your door?

"Hey, as if I know why my father is crying, I can solve it. Do you have the ability to solve it?" Yang Ping'an shrugged: "Anyway, neither of us has this ability. Just take care of yourself and find a more considerate wife in the future. If the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. If there is no tall person, just squat down."

Yang Zian scratched his head and sighed. He was right. He could only pretend that he didn’t see it.

"Ah..." The two brothers sighed at the same time and then walked to the other side of the road.

"Brother, do you want to play cards?"

"Your luck is so bad, wash your hands more often." Yang Zian was simply disgusted by his card skills.

"Wash your hands? I washed my whole body." Yang Ping'an grabbed his still slightly wet hair and showed it to his brother.

"Go away, it stinks." Yang Zian pushed his brother's hand away with disgust.

"I used soap to wash it, how can it smell?" Yang Pingan put the hair under his nose and smelled it. "It really doesn't smell, there must be something wrong with your nose."

"My nose is fine. It's your nose that has problems. You can't even smell such a strong stench." Yang Zian smiled weirdly.

"Okay, brother, you've become a bad guy too. You actually know how to lie. You made me really think that I smelled bad. I'll beat you to death. Don't run!" The two brothers chased each other and laughed continuously.

Yang Biao was reading under the lamp when Xiao Zhang came in with a bowl of egg custard. "Eat it while it's hot."

"Yeah, okay." Yang Biao put down the book, took the bowl, and ate with big mouthfuls.

"Eat slowly, no one is going to snatch it from you." Little Zhang laughed. "Today your third aunt brought sisters Caixiang and her to visit us."

"He said that your grandfather let your aunt take charge of the family." Little Zhang bit her lower lip.

"I'm done." Yang Biao turned the bowl over. "Mom, we've moved out of the old house and are living alone. Tomorrow afternoon, my uncle, the village head, will take me to the county government with the land purchase certificate to divide the household." According to the laws of the Shang Dynasty, if the father died and the mother was still unmarried, the son could set up a new household as long as he purchased land.

"I see. I really don't want to see your aunt again. You see, mom always stays at home and doesn't go anywhere."

"Mother can get along more with the head of the village, uncle and aunt. They are both good people."

"Yes," Xiao Zhang replied, "Xiu Xiu (the second daughter-in-law of the village head and Xiao Zhang are cousins) also came to visit.

Yang Biao thought that Xiao Zhang should be more social. "Xiaohua told me that the embroidery thread is almost used up. Mother, ask Aunt Xiu what kind of thread to buy. Otherwise, ask her to take you to the town to buy it?"

"That... depends on when it's convenient for her." Mrs. Zhang was a little afraid to go out.

Yang Biao knew that if he wanted this socially anxious person to integrate with the villagers, he couldn't rush it. "It's getting late, Mom, go to bed early."

"You should go to bed early too. Don't you still have to go to town to copy?"

"Okay, let's go to sleep now." After saying that, Yang Biao walked to the bed, sat down and lay down.

Xiao Zhang smiled and blew out the oil lamp, then walked out of the house in the moonlight and closed the door gently.

Yang Biao lay in bed, tossing and turning but unable to fall asleep. He sat up again, walked to the window, and looked at the moon in the sky. At this time, the sister and brother should be on summer vacation. Has the sister's scoliosis improved a little? Is the brother still not eating well? Mom really misses you!

"Mom, can you really make so much money by copying books?" Yang Chunhua asked Wang curiously.

"That should be the case, otherwise all the rich people would send their children to school." Speaking of studying, Wang got angry. "Your two brothers just don't like studying. It seems that they are destined to be peasants for the rest of their lives. I can only hope that after they get married, their children will be able to study."

"It would be great if you two were boys. You seem much more capable than the Zi'an brothers." Wang felt a little regretful.

The two sisters looked at each other and laughed.

Before dawn, Yang Biao woke up his younger brother and took him to the village head's house. As a widow, Xiao Zhang was not able to attend the groundbreaking ceremony. Xiao Hua was a girl and was not allowed to preside over the ceremony in ancient times. He could only let his younger brother do it.

"Little brother, you have to listen to the headman and do whatever he tells you to do. Do you understand?" Yang Biao was a little worried and reminded him repeatedly.

"I know, brother. You've told me this many times." Yang Lin felt that his brother was too nagging.

"Uncle, the village head, I'm going to trouble you today." The village head nodded. "Brother Biao, isn't it time to copy at noon? Go with the ox cart. It's still parked at the Junlai Restaurant. Go quickly, or it will be too late."

Yang Biao touched his brother's head and said, "Okay, I'll go then."

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